Jasna Gora Monastery: The miraculous Catholic site (Part - 1)

By Asad Russel –

About the Jasna Gora Monastery, Czestochowa, Poland:
In Czestochowa, Poland the Jasna Gora Monastery, in the world the third largest pilgrimage site for the Catholic, of Our Lady of Czestochowa to the beloved miraculous icon is the home, the national shrine of Poland is also the monastery and of Polish Catholicism the center.

The history of the Jasna Gora Monastery:
Built by Jesus himself on a tabletop by Luke the Evangelist was painted the icon of Jasna Gora, and by St. Helen was discovered the icon, who was the mother of Emperor Constantine and in the Holy Land collector of the Christian relics, according to the tradition. In the imperial city of Constantinople was then enshrined the icon, for the next 500 years where it remained, according to legend.

To a Greek princess from the Byzantine emperor as a wedding gift to have been given the painting is said that in 803, a Ruthenian nobleman the princess married. At Belz in the royal palace was then placed the image, for nearly 600 years where it remained.

Fleeing the Tartars with an arrow who had struck it with a Polish army in 1382 upon the icon’s arrival in Poland with tradition first combines the history. In the legend it has that, of Belz during the looting, containing the image enveloped the chapel a mysterious cloud. In 1386 to enshrine the icon in Czestochowa a monastery was founded, and containing the icon around the chapel King Jagiello built a cathedral soon.

However, once again come under attack soon the image. Attacked the monastery pre-Reformation reformers the Hussites in 1430, with a sword slashed the Virgin’s face, and in a puddle of mud and blood left it desecrated. It has been said that, from the mud the icon when the monk pulled, appeared a fountain which was miraculous, to clean the painting what they used. In Krakow was repainted the icon, but were left both the arrow mark and from the sword the gashes and remain today visible clearly.

In 1655 for which is most famous the Black Madonna of Czestochowa occurred the miracle, were about to invade Czestochowa when the Swedish troops. For deliverance before the icon prayed fervently a group of polish soldiers, and retreated the enemy. As “Queen of Poland” Our lady of Czestochowa declared by King John Casimir in 1656 and for the nation the spiritual capital made the city.

In 1920 to aid of her people the Virgin again came, on the bank of the Vistula River when gathered the Soviet Russian Red Army, to attack Warsaw preparing. To Our Lady of Czestochowa fervently prayed the citizens and soldiers, and above Warsaw in the cloud she appeared the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrow on September 15. The “Miracle at the Vistula” later dubbed in a series of battles were defeated the Russians.

To Jasna Gora Hitler prohibited pilgrimages during Nazi occupation, but the journey still secretly made many. After the liberation of Poland in 1945, to express their gratitude to Czestochowa journeyed half a million pilgrims. To the Immaculate Heart of Mary to rededicate the entire nation at the shrine 1.5 million people gathered on September 8, 1946. For the anti-Communist resistance the Jasna Gora was a center during the Cold War.    

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