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	FSuperAng - Page: 16 of 30 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Vatican is Jasna Góra and Rome is as Czestohowa.
		In the year 1656 the king of Poland Kazimierz in a ceromonious vow committed the nation of Poland under the authority, care and defence of madonna of Jasna Góra choosing her to be the patron of Poland.
		On the terrains of the Jasna Góra cloister one can hear from the pilgrimage guides that "it is a place for Poles and it is not only a place to which people go so as to give a proof of their faith".
	hometown.aol.com.au /_ht_a/skarbiec/FA2/fsuperang_016.htm (2883 words)

	Czestochowa
		Jasna Gora is located in the town of Czestochowa.
		The Polish national shrine of the monastery of Jasna Gora owes its' fame to the painting Matka Boska Czestochowska (Black Madonna of Czestochowa).
		The monastery of Jasna Gora began in 1382 with the arrival of monks from the Pauline Order from Hungary.
	members.tripod.com /mares1/newpage5.htm (682 words)

	ZobaczPolske.pl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was Prince Ladislaus of Opole, the plenipotentiary of King Louis of Hungary for Polish territory between 1367 and 1372 who summoned the Pauline Monks to Poland.
		According to art critics, the Jasna Góra painting was originally a Byzantine icon (of the Hodigitria type), dating between the sixth and ninth centuries.
		Jasna Gora –sacral and laic complex, surrouded bu curtains and park.
	www.zobaczpolske.pl /main_en.php?content=display&pan_id=1335 (550 words)

	KtB - The Only Jew for Miles
		Her intercession is said to have helped the Poles against every country on their long list of invaders, most notably when Jasna Gora, the monastery where she resides, repelled a massive Swedish siege in 1655.
		In Polish, jasna gora means "bright mountain." The monastery is atop a large, sloping hill; and its stolid tower, with its oxidized green dome, is visible from miles away.
		Jasna Gora is a bit of a maze, and it was slow going through the crowds.
	www.killingthebuddha.com /dogma/onlyjewformiles.htm (2660 words)

	Welcome to Alta
		Jasna Gora Monastery is the best known place for pilgrimage in Poland.
		Thanks to the generous patronage of the kings and pilgrims in the 17th century the monastery was fortified.
		The painting is the mystery, the fulchrum, the atmosphere of the Jasna Gora.
	www.altatravel.com /html/pilg.html (730 words)

	The Black Madonna of Częstochowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of the oldest documents from Jasna Góra states that the picture travelled from Jerusalem, via Constantinople, to finally reach Czętochowa in August 1382.
		The Black Madonna is credited with miraculously saving the monastery of Jasna Góra (English: Bright Hill) from a Swedish 17th century invasion, The Deluge, which actually changed the course of the war.
		This event led King Jan Kazimierz to crown Our Lady of Częstochowa (the Black Madonna) as Queen and Protector of Poland in the cathedral of Lwów on April 1, 1656.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Black_Madonna_of_Czestochowa (175 words)

	sortlifeout.co.uk - Discover Your True Purpose (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because of the presence of the monastery complex of the Paulite order on Jasna Gora (Clear Mountain) in Czestochowa, the Slaskie Voivodeship is one of the most important centres of pilgrimage in Poland.
		It is estimated that Jasna Gora is visited annually by about 5 million pilgrims from all over the world and the biggest group is that known as the Warsaw Pilgrimage, which has been coming regularly to Jasna Gora since 1711.
		In the same way as Jasna Gora has a spiritual meaning for the whole country, Piekary Slaskie is the "spiritual capital" of Upper Silesia.
	www.meaningoflife.i12.com /Czestochowa.htm (1866 words)

	Our Lady Queen of Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The chronicles of Jasna Gora tell us that immediately after descending the hill, the horses stopped and would not move from the place.
		In that place at the foot of Jasna Gora, was placed a wooden cross, and later the Church of St. Barbara was built there.
		Thus Jasna Gora took on the aspect of a fortress.
	www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1981_May/Our_Lady.htm (1836 words)

	Correspondence -siege Czestochowa 1655 to Nov 21
		"On 6 August 1655, on this grim news, a council of war was held in the monastery of Jasna Gora under the leadership of Teofil Bronowski, the Priorship of Augustine Kordecki, and garrison commander of the fortress Colonel Jan Pawl, herb Cellari.
		Previously, the commander of the garrison of the Jasna Gora fortress, Colonel J.P. Cellari, was instructed by king Jan II Kazimier to organize a partisan brigade in the region.
		He started politely, arguing that it was not the shrine he had been ordered to seize but the town of Czestochowa, and as the Jasna Gora monastery dominates the town, he must of mere necessity occupy the shrine.
	www.kismeta.com /diGrasse/Czestochowa/correspondenceSiege1.htm (4791 words)

	Our Lady of Czestochowa - Shrine
		Jasna Gora at present is the spiritual capital of the Nation.
		The Virgin of Jasna Gora has revealed her maternal solicitude for every soul; fr every family, for every human being living in this land, working here, fighting against himself, winning or losing; for every human being who must leave the soil of his motherhood as an emigrant; for every human being.
		They are accustomed to come with their problems to Jasna Gora to speak of them with their heavenly Mother, who not only has her image here, one f the best known and most venerated pictures of her in the world, but is specially present here.
	www.czestochowa.us /novenas_us.php (9170 words)

	Home > Publications >
		The greatest of Poland’s shrines was the monastery at Jasna Gora, ‘Bright Mountain,’ housing the miraculous icon of ‘The Black Madonna’ in the city of Czestochowa...
		On a visit to Jasna Gora, June 6, 1979, [Karol] Wojtyla, as Pope, would inform his listeners that as a schoolboy he had been granted ‘special interviews’ with Our Lady at the shrine.
		I remember very many of these farewell visits, these special audiences that you, Mother of Jasna Gora, have granted me, when I was still a high-school student and came here with my father and the pilgrimage from the whole of my native parish of Wadowice.
	www.eppc.org /publications/pubID.2228/pub_detail.asp (830 words)

	Our Lady of Czestochowa - Shrine
		Mary's Shrine on Jasna Gora is fittingly called the "Confessional" and the "Cenacle" of Christian Poland.
		Jasna Gora is the spiritual capital of Poland.
		He thus left the picture at the Jasna Gora Church and invited the white-robed Pauline Fathers from Hungary to be in charge of the shrine.
	www.czestochowa.us /novenas.htm (9170 words)

	Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This helped Jasna Gora survive a most tragic period in its history: the siege by the Swedes during the Swedish-Polish war of 1655.
		The defence of Jasna Gora was considered a miracle worked by the prayers of the Blessed Virgin.
		Among the portraits is one of John Paul’s papal visit to Jasna Gora–not far from where the pope served as cardinal archbishop of Krakow.
	www.thesoutherncross.co.za /rensburg/black_madonna.htm (680 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jasna Góra's most valuable treasure is the miraculous painting of Our Lady.
		Without the painting, Jasna Góra would be nothing but a building complex, a museum of artworks which are undoubtedly precious and beautiful but devoid of any vitality.
		The painting is the mystery, the fulcrum, the atmosphere of the Jasna Góra sanctuary.
	elanga.home.texas.net /pmk/default_en.htm (408 words)

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		Overlooking the city of Czestochowa is the monastic complex of Jasna Gora comprising the Basilica of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and the monastery of the Pauline Monks.
		The Lubomirski Gate, adorned with a statue of St. Michael the Archangel, is the first of four gated archways the pilgrim passes through to the Basilica.
		The heart of Jasna Gora is the gothic Lady Chapel wherein is enshrined the Miraculous Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.
	www.angelfire.com /fl5/salve/Czestochowa/page2.html (153 words)

	Warsaw Voice - On Step Toward God
		The tradition of making pilgrimages to Jasna Góra dates back to the late 14th and early 15th centuries, when the Pauline monastery was established.
		Anna, 30, who has been on 16 pilgrimages to Jasna Góra, made her first pilgrimage when she was 14, intending to convert her parents.
		Wojtyła had traveled to Jasna Góra many times previously, first as a student, then as a priest working with university-level students, and finally as a bishop leading priests from the Cracow archdiocese.
	www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/1727 (1343 words)

	An Historical Outline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the western part of the city, known as "old Czestochowa" in the 14th century, a 293-metre high hill was handed over to the Pauline Monks from Hungary in 1382.
		There are two version of the history of the Jasna Gora painting.
		There is a traditional version, steeped in legend and an historical one, reconstructed by art critics whose attention was drawn to this extraordinary image and its origins.
	www.jasnagora.pl /english/z_dziejow_sanktuarium.html (874 words)

	Czestochowa & Divine Mercy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sacred Heart Chapel in the Jasna Gora Sanctuary
		Crucifix in the refectory of the Jasna Gora Sanctuary
		statue of Christ the Pontiff in the Jasna Gora Sanctuary
	homepage.mac.com /edwardyew/Christmas2003/PhotoAlbum27.html (230 words)

	The American Spectator
		Visiting the shrine of Jasna Gora in his native country in June of 1979 he announced, "Mary's will is being fulfilled." As he lay a golden rose on the altar of the Black Madonna, he further declared: "Mother, I am yours and all that I have is yours."
		In 1983, two years after he was shot twice by the assassin, Ali Agca, in St. Peter's Square, the pontiff sent the bullet-pierced belt from his cassock to Jasna Gora, where it is to be displayed among the several icons and artifacts at the foot of the shrine of the Black Madonna.
		It is more likely the bright hill of Jasna Gora, and the Marian figure within who oversees a piece of white cloth signaling devotion.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7977 (688 words)

	Tradition, Family, and Property
		Since the treasonous Count did not have the means to conquer Jasna Gora by arms, he attacked and damaged some properties of the monastery, and hastened to meet General Miller, who was moving his troops not far away.
		Fray Kordecki acted immediately: he expelled the chiefs of the revolt from the fortress, increased the salaries of the garrison (the 160 soldiers were paid), and obliged all members of the defending force to swear an oath that they would fight until the last drop of their blood.
		Whence it follows that Jasna Gora is "the fountain of the graces which God will pour out over souls, curing them of their internal weaknesses, whence also will flow the strength and health of the whole body of our Fatherland.
	www.tfp.org /TFPForum/ourladythequeen/czestachowa.htm (6726 words)

	Runge-Sypniewski- Czestochowa
		When the Jasna Gora Monastery was founded, the Paulites were granted a small timber church.
		Father Izydor Lesczcynski painted scenes showing the life of Mary and Jesus and the miracles performed at Jasna Gora, while side altars were painted by Father Felicjan Ratynski.
		He made the trip to Jasna Gora and entered the chapel and began to pray.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Czestochowa.html (2309 words)

	Pilgrimages to the Shrine in Czêstochowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the communist era, pilgrimages to the Czêstochowa shrine have been an opportunity to manifest the cult of the Black Madonna - the mother of the Polish nation, people's faith in individual rights, and patriotic traditions.
		Walking pilgrimages set out from different geographical directions starting from all major cities in Poland and continued marching towards the Jasna Góra in order to meet in the city of Czêstochowa on August 15th which is the Holiday of the Assumption of Holy Mary.
		August 14-15, 1983 - banners, crosses and emblems from pilgrimages hung on a fence of the Jasna Góra Monastery.
	www.ipn.gov.pl /eng/eng_pielgrzym.html (555 words)

	Warsaw Academic Metropolitan Pedestrian Pilgrimage, Warsaw - Czestochowa, Poland, each year August 5-14
		Its path leads to Jasna Gora (Czestochowa) through famous sanctuaries in Niepokalanow, Szymanow, Miedniewice, Smardzewice and Gidle.
		Although officially pilgrimage ends, when a group enters the Chapel of the Black Madonna Shrine at Jasna Gora, we try to take part in a Mass at 1 p.m.
		The most important for us is to be able to take the spirit of the Pilgrimage into our everyday life and live it till the next one.
	www.salwatorianie.pl /pp/zielona/english2.htm (502 words)

	Krakow Info - Czestochowa Sanctuary
		The Jasna Gora (Bright Mount in Polish) sanctuary in Czestochowa, industrial city of 300,000 a ninety minutes’ drive northwest from Krakow, has been Central Europe’s spiritual hub for six centuries and it shows.
		In the 14th century a Polish prince, Wladislaw of Opole, found the icon in the Belz castle while he was warring Tatars who had conquered neighboring Rus, and he entrusted the holy image to the Pauline monks in Czestochowa.
		April 14, 1430, on the Easter, Bohemian robbers looted the Jasna Gora monastery, slashed Our Lady’s cheek with swords, and–by the account of the 1523 "Historia Pulchra"–left the holy image on the floor, broken in three.
	www.krakow-info.com /czestoch.htm (719 words)

	Shrine of Our Lady of Jasna Góra
		Mother of Jasna Góra and Queen, I come to you today on a pilgrimage of faith to thank you for your ceaseless protection of all the Church and of myself, especially during the fifty years of my priesthood and those of my service in the See of Peter.
		Mother of the Church's faith, just as you persevered in prayer with Jesus' disciples in the Upper Room, so be with us today in the Upper Room of the Church as she travels towards the third millennium of faith, and obtain for us the grace to be open to the gift of God's Spirit.
		Temple of the Holy Spirit, today in the Shrine of Jasna Góra I give you thanks for all the good which has come to my own nation in years of profound transformation.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/travels/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_04061997_prayer_en.html (815 words)

	The 5th Pilgrimage of young Radio Maryja listeners to Jasna Góra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We have this special privilege that in Poland there are many such places, which we call sanctuaries, to which people have been making pilgrimages for centuries.
		Our National Sanctuary in Jasna Góra is certainly one of such places and, moreover, this is the spiritual capital city of our country.
		We would like also to ask everyone responsible for the Circles of Friends of Radio Maryja to help young people to come to Jasna Góra on the 24th may. Help them to organize coaches and if it is possible support them financially.
	www.informusic.it /old/jasnagora.htm (570 words)

	Imperial Cities by Collette Vacations: all collette tours - Collette Vacations authorized representative.
		Travel inside the Jasna Gora Monastery with one of its clergy to witness the world-famous Black Madonna.
		Visit inside the Jasna Gora Monastery with one of its clergy to witness the world-famous Black Madonna.
		Original accounts of the numerous and spectacular miracles attributed to this icon are preserved in the archives at Jasna Gora.
	www.collettetour.com /europe/imperialcities.htm (1427 words)

	The Pope Speaks in Preparation for His Trip to Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is the 45th talk in the "Jasna Gora Cycle", a series of meditations which the Holy Father used in order to prepare for his trip to Poland.
		In your presence I re-read these words, O Guardian of Jasna Gora, of divine and human life in our land, these words from the Polish bishops' letter for the Feast of the Holy Family.
		I join with my brothers in the pastoral service and with all those who have at heart the problem of the life of unborn babies, and of the "law which will assure the juridical protection of the life which has been conceived".
	www.priestsforlife.org /magisterium/91-01-30popetomeditations.htm (450 words)

	The Holy See - The Holy Father - John Paul II - Travels - Poland 1979
		Recital of the "Prayer of Jasna Gora" (Czestochowa, June 5, 1979)
		To the workers of Jasna Gora - Homily (June 6, 1979)
		To the seminarians gathered in the Sanctuary of Jasna Gora (Czestochowa, June 6, 1979)
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/travels/sub_index1979/trav_poland-1979.htm (362 words)

	Central Europe Review - Polish News Review
		While praising farmers' hard work at the harvest festival at the Jasna Góra national shrine (3 September) Buzek took the opportunity to point out increases in government spending on agriculture.
		He noted that the state had allocated "50 per cent more money from the budget than in previous years," adding that the government's emergency purchases of grain totalled some four million tons.
		AWS (Solidarity Electoral Action) leader Marian Krzaklewski, Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper and PPL (Polish Peasant Party) leader Jarosław Kalinowski were also busy campaigning in the countryside this week attending the same (previously mentioned) harvest festival at Jasna Góra.
	www.ce-review.org /00/30/polandnews30.html (778 words)

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