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Jasna Gora Monastery and Return to Warsaw
Czestochowa – July 15, 2009
We left Wroclaw this morning by bus and it was to be a long day. I went for a run along the Oder River just before 6 a.m. and returned to the hotel and had breakfast. We loaded the buses and departed at 8 a.m. and took a "shortcut", as Andrejsz told me in jest, to the town of Czestochowa, to the northeast …
Video from inside Jasna Gora Monastery library
This video shows the viewer our tour guide, Father Simon, as he let us into a private tour of the several centuries old monastery library at Jasna Gora. He is explaining that the book he is paging through is a 700 year old bible translated into Polish by monks from the monastery. We also got to sign the guest book there, and saw the guestbook …
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