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Religion and Spirituality - Black Madonna
... Jasna Gora Monastery is located. This is the most holy site to the Polish and annually thousands walk from Warsaw to here (takes about nine days) during the Feast of the Assumption. Why? It is a Byzantine painting of the Virgin Mary that is housed in the church in the Monastery. The painting is said to have been painted by St. Luke and has miraculous powers. The story goes that a would be thief tried to steal the painting and it became heavier and heavier as he ...
Home to my roots (I think)
... and "Great" Synagogues which had been converted to a children's library and an adult library respectively. These buildings had plaques on the outside denoting the history and some sympathetic locals gave me a short tour of the larger building explaining what the rooms had been. The children's library I explored myself and found some remnants of a more horrifying time (bullet holes where once sacred scrolls would have been housed). I found it ...
A pilgrimage to Auschwitz and Birkenau
I dedicated almost an entire day in Auschwitz and Birkenau, it was my main purpose for coming to Poland.
I am getting as much as I can done. I went to Auschwitz and Birkenau today, it was pretty intense. I can't believe I was in two famous concentration camps where hundreds of thousands of Jews from all ...
Santuário Jasna Gora
... difícil de acreditar para quem precisa ver para crer, ainda mais sem documento algum. Isso mesmo, não se sabe quem a pintou nem como essa imagem chegou lá. Essa Madonna Negra não apareceu como Fátima, mas diz-se que ela defendeu o povo da Montanha Clara de várias lutas. No rosto da Madonna pode-se ver 2 cortes. Estes foram dados por dados por um intruso ao atacar um soldado polaco que usou a imagem para se defender.
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Miracles and Prayers
... on the road the bus sounded with voices of about fifty church ladies. They sang and prayed all the way to Częstochowa stunning his efforts to listen to his music. Then,, as soon as we arrived, the Parson led all 150 pilgrims on the Road of the Cross, fourteen stations marking steps on Christ’s path to crucifixion, while reading thoughts and meditations relating to our everyday lives.
Don’t laugh, but I had an Angelina Jolie moment ...
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