Before the canonisation we asked Poles about the significance of this event. 98% of interviewees think that canonisation of the pope will be important for all Poles (80% say it will be very important). Common are also declarations that it will be important for respondents’ families and themselves personally (accordingly 89% and 88%, including 59% and 60% declaring that it will be very important). A slightly smaller number of interviewees believe that the canonisation will be important for Europe (35% believe it is a very important event and further 45% that it is rather important) and for the world (accordingly 34% and 42%). The significance of John Paul II’s canonisation from personal, national, European and wider perspective is higher than the significance assigned to his beatification in 2011.

More on that issue can be found in the CBOS report in Polish: „In anticipation of John Paul II’s canonisation”.