Jasna Gora Monastery: The miraculous Catholic site (Part – 3)

By Asad Russel

After Part – 2
At the Jasna Gora Monastery what to see:
From the 14th century to the present to the Black Madonna over the centuries given of votive offerings a rich storehouse is the monastery’s treasury. From the scepters and sword to in concentration camps of dried bread made to rosaries the gifts ranges.

A vast array of precious objects have donated Kings, Queens and Popes, such as in 1670 in Jasna Gora on the occasion of their wedding from Austria King Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki and Archduchess. In the 1980s against Solidarity protest used by the Communists are tear gas cylinders also donated to the Virgin, and in 1983 won by Lech Walesa the Noble Peace Prize.

Housing precious manuscripts a richly decorated library there is also. Since 1920 for the Polish Episcopal Conference the meetings the library has hosted. In the basilica around the perimeter, where once was the moat, in 1913 sculpted by Pius Welonski represented by bronze statues there are the 14 Stations of the Cross. At the Station of the Cross prays nearly every pilgrim group, some people move on their knees from one station to the next station.

At the Jasna Gora Monastery the pilgrimages and festivals:
Via the tree lined main avenue approaches to the shrine of Czestochowa a steady stream of pilgrims from the early in the morning to late in the evening every day. In between them a few hundred the groups leave.  As they pray to the rosary and sing hymns so the others as not to disturb. To lead the singing young men carry the speakers and batteries.

With the name of their town pilgrims wear badges and on pilgrimage to Czestochowa how many times they have come a number showing, for decades every year many have come. In the Chapel of the Black Madonna after venerating the icon, as a votive offering to the walls their badges pilgrims usually pin.

From all walks of life attracts delegations the Czestochowa as the National Shrine of Poland. Regularly visit the government leaders, and on organized pilgrimages arrives the students, miners, veterans, former Stalinist prisoners, actors and the factory workers.

Marian feast days are the preferred days to Czestochowa to make the pilgrimage, especially on August 15 the Feast of the Assumption. Crowd the city up to 500,000 people on this day. Since 1711 has left 32 other town with the Warsaw a pilgrimage and for up to 21 days to Czestochowa walked in procession.

Brings throngs of visitors four other national pilgrimage days, they are – the Feast of Mary, Queen of Poland in May 3; the Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa in August 26; the Feast of the Nativity of Mary in September 8; and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in December 8.

Getting in the Jasna Gora Monastery:
In the south central Poland is located the Czestochowa and from major cities is easily accessible. From Warsaw and Krakow there are about six fast trains daily, from Katowice hourly departures, and from Wroclaw, Opole and Lodz several daily trains. To the shrine you can take a bus or taxi from the train station.   

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