A votive offering to the soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps for their happy rescue
The marble monument-altar was erected in the courtyard of the Franciscan Church of St Peter the Fisherman in Tiberias. It was a vote of thanks to the soldiers of the 2nd Polish Corps for their happy rescue from exile in Russia and the hospitality shown to them by the Franciscans in the Holy Land. The author of the project and executor of the work was Lieutenant Tadeusz Zieliński, a graduate of the State School of Decorative Arts and Artistic Industry in Kraków, a soldier of the September Campaign and a prisoner of the camp in Kozielsk. He was assisted in the stonework by several assigned soldiers. Work on the altar lasted from March 1945 to July 1946, and its ceremonial consecration took place on 11 August 1946.

Marble monument-altar
In the centre of the monument, above the altar mensa, is a bas-relief image of Our Lady of Czestochowa. On its sides are two bas-reliefs depicting a Junker and a Junior Volunteer, personifying Faith and Love (at the time, Palestine was home to the School of Junkers and Junior Volunteers, intended for pre-pubescent teenagers). The antepedium bears the emblem of Poland, and on the sides - the likenesses of the eight insignia worn on the uniforms of the soldiers of the various units of the 2nd Corps.

In the side wings of the altar are two life-size bas-reliefs each: on the left a knight from the time of Bolesław Chrobry and St Christopher, and on the right St Michael the Archangel and a Polish soldier in gutter from the Second World War. At either end of the monument are the coats of arms of Lvov, Vilnius, Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow and Poznan, as a sign that the soldiers of the 2nd Corps came from all over Poland.