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The article brings sensational information about the existence in the 17th century in the collegiate church of Holy Cross in Wrocław (Silesia) epitaph of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden. A monument commemorating the Catholic temple – a kind of supplement to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist – a pillar of Lutheranism in Europe, was undoubtedly something extraordinary. Two independent sources from 1682 and 1694 inform about its existence. It is not known who founded the epitaph or when it was created. It covers a period of 60 years from the king's death in 1632. The content of the Latin inscription commemorating the wanderer king, as defined there, shows some affinities with the poetry of the Catholic Silesian poet Johannes Scheffler, known under the pseudonym Angelus Silesius (+1677). One of the circumstances conducive to the creation of the epitaph could have been the taking over of the Wrocław diocese in 1672 by Cardinal Frederick of Hesse, who had previously been a tutor in Rome for the famous convert, the former Queen of Sweden Christina, daughter of Gustav Adolf. It is also not known when the king's epitaph was removed. This could have happened already around 1710, when a new main altar was built in the church. It was interpreted as a reaction of the Wrocław Catholic clergy to the convention in Altranstät of 1707. It was then that the next Swedish king, Charles XII, stood up for the Silesian Lutherans, thus becoming the personification of evil for the Catholic prelates.