Our friars living and serving in Hamburg, NY hosted members of the Polish Arts Club of Buffalo, to remember Józef Sławiński, the Polish artist and sculptor whose works include the sgraffito decorating of the main entrance to the St. Francis of Assisi Friary (St. Francis Drive, Hamburg, NY) and the reredos in the Friary Chapel. Fr. Charles Jagodzinski, OFM Conv., who vividly remembers the artist working in the friary, presided at the Mass. Afterward, the art club attendees toured the chapel, shared stories with the friars, and even had the opportunity to see the signature of then-Archbishop Karol Józef Wojtyła of Kraków (Saint John Paul II), from his September 17, 1969, visit to the friary (below).