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	Czestochowa, Poland " The Black Madonna "
		The Black Madonna was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist; and it was while painting the picture, Mary told him about the life of Jesus, which he later incorporated into his gospel.
		The next time we hear of the painting is in 326 A.D. when St. Helen found it in Jerusalem and gave it to her son and had a shrine built for it in Constantinople.
		The painting is known as the Black Madonna because of the soot residue that discolors the painting.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/apparitions/pr00002.htm (268 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Madonna of the Steps
		Madonna of the Steps is a relief done by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, created during the time he was in the school of Lorenzo de' Medici.
		The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska in Polish) icon, which was, according to legend, painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress table top from the house of the Holy Family.
		Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, a painting that could be one of two Madonnas started by Leonardo da Vinci, as he remarked himself, in October 1478.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Madonna-of-the-Steps (312 words)

	Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		North of Krakow in southern Poland is the city of Czestochowa, a city boasting a population of about 300000.
		The artists painted two slashes on the face of the Madonna as a remembrance of the Hussite’s deed.
		Czestochowa is now only a memory, and yet a nostalgic feeling of peace embraces me when thinking of it.
	www.thesoutherncross.co.za /rensburg/black_madonna.htm (680 words)

	Zwarte Madonna van Czestochowa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Polen is de Zwarte Madonna van Czestochowa het meest vereerde icoon bij het Katholieke gelovigen.
		De zwarte Madonna van Czestochowa is een met goud omlijst schilderij van 122 bij 82 centimeter.
		De Zwarte Madonna is met de Polen geweest in hun historische worstelingen.
	www.marypages.com /CzestochowaNL.htm (714 words)

	czestochowa.page
		Czestochowa became the main shrine of the country.
		The image of the Black Madonna of the Jasna Gora monastery is venerated by both Catholics and Russian Orthodox.
		The multicoloured vaults of the presbytery and the main aisle are the work of Karl Dankwart (1695) and feature respectively the history of the Holy Cross and the miracles attributed to the mediation of the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora.
	www.geocities.com /marianshrines/czestochowa.html (705 words)

	Czestochowa
		The Polish national shrine of the monastery of Jasna Gora owes its' fame to the painting Matka Boska Czestochowska (Black Madonna of Czestochowa).
		In 1384 the painting of the Black Madonna was presented to the Pauline Monks and soon the painting began attracting believers.
		This is one of the few places in Poland that was able to withstand the Swedish sieges of 1656-1657; the miraculous survival of the fortress and monastery being attributed to the painting of the Black Madonna.
	members.tripod.com /mares1/newpage5.htm (682 words)

	Christian Mystery Schools, Cults, Heresies
		The pope, a native of Poland, prayed before the Madonna of Czestochowa in 1979, several months after his election to the Chair of Peter, and he is known to have made subsequent visits in 1983 and in 1991.
		If the Black Madonna of Czestochowa was truly a portrait of Mary that had been painted from life by the apostle Luke, he would surely have captured a woman with olive or dark brown skin and fl or brown hair.
		Therefore, many of the depictions of the Black Madonna and child throughout the regions of southern France and Spain may be regarded as images of Mary Magdalene carrying the infant son of Jesus rather than the Virgin Mary carrying the infant Jesus.
	www.unexplainedstuff.com /Religious-Phenomena/Christian-Mystery-Schools-Cults-Heresies.html (4502 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Black Madonna of Czestochowa
		The history of the Polish national shrine of Czestochowa is a mirror of the tormented and troubled history of the nations of Central and Eastern Europe and a key to the understanding of their spiritual resistance during their present trials.
		The veneration of the picture of the Madonna is the expression of the Polish nation's faith and gratitude.
		During the wars with the Swedes in the seventeenth century Czestochowa was besieged by the whole Swedish army for more than six weeks, but the army of the enemy was defeated and the invader driven from Polish soil.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2996 (1206 words)

	Black Madonna Shrice and Grottos
		The Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos is located in the countryside about eight miles outside Eureka, Missouri -- approximately a 40-minute drive from West St. Louis County.
		The grottos at the Black Madonna Shrine are constructed of native Missouri tiff rock, which came from Potosi, a mining community 30 miles southwest of the site.
		The Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos are part of the 500-acre Franciscan Mission.
	www.franciscancaring.org /blackmadonnapage.html (2378 words)

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		Shortly after, on April 1, 1656 Jan Kazimierz, the King of Poland, in the cathedral of Lwów, solemnly pronounced his vow to consecrate the country to the protection of the Mother of God and proclaimed Her the Patron and Queen of the lands in his kingdom.
		The Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Czestochowska in Polish) icon was, according to legend, painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress table top from the house of the Holy Family.
		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.
	www.ststansbm.org /innerpage2.htm (445 words)

	Czestochowa - Poland
		The Black Madonna was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist; and it was while painting the picture, Mary told him about the life of Jesus, which he later incorporated into his gospel.
		The next time the painting is mentioned is in 326AD when St. Helen found it in Jerusalem and gave it to her son and had a shrine built for it in Constantinople.
		In 1430, the church was invaded and a looter struck the painting two times with his sword, but before he could strike it another time, he fell to the ground in agony and pain, and died.
	www.di-ve.com /dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=138727&pid=null (418 words)

	Excursion to Czestochowa - Poland - Kraków - Tours
		The origins of the Black Madonna are unclear.
		According to legend, Luke the Evangelist drew the icon on a board of cypress wood which came from the the table of the holy family from Nazareth, doubtful from a historical standpoint.
		Each year an approximated four to five million pilgrims visit the Black Madonna and along with Jeanne d'Arc she can be considered one of the most important Saints of Poland.
	www.eastline.com /krakow-cracow-culture-excursion-czestochowa.html (164 words)

	Rosary of the Black Madonna, Our Lady of Czestochowa, rosary made from roses
		The Black Madonna rosary features red roses, fl nickel S wires and fl jet AB crystal spacer beads that contrast with the Pater Noster beads of white micro-miniature roses.
		The Prince transferred the painting to a church in Czestochowa (chen-sta-ho-va), Poland.
		The painting is known as the Black Madonna because of the soot residue that discolors the painting.
	www.ourroserosary.com /blackmadonna.htm (392 words)

	Black Madonna Shrine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Black Madonna Shrine!" she called, and I pulled off at once, out of the heavy traffic and onto a peaceful artery where bees in the trumpet vines were the only busyness.
		Brother Bronislaus Luszcz immigrated from Poland in 1927 at the age of 34, with the Franciscan Missionary Brothers of the Sacred Heart, who came to the area to open a nursing home.
		Ten years later, he built a rustic chapel to the Black Madonna on their land.
	www.rff.org /~daly/black_madonna_shrine.htm (320 words)

	Black Madonna
		The Black Madonna is a painting of the Madonna and Christ Child which legend states was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist.
		The Prince, fearing that he and the famous painting might fall to the Tartars, fled in the night finally stopping in the town of Czestochowa, where the painting was installed in a small church.
		With the decline of communism in Poland, pilgrimages to the Black Madonna have increased dramatically.
	www.unsolvedmysteries.com /usm471431.html (672 words)

	ScienceDaily: Pilgrims visit Poland Black Madonna shrine
		CZESTOCHOWA, Poland, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- More than 200,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims, many of them on foot, arrived Tuesday at the Black Madonna shrine of Czestochowa in southern Poland.
		The pilgrimage to the Black Madonna shrine dates back to 1711, when a group of 20 men walked from the capital Warsaw 100 miles southwest to Czestochowa to thank the Madonna for surviving a plague epidemic.
		Medieval Black Death Was Probably Not Bubonic Plague (April 15, 2002) -- The Black Death of the 1300s was probably not the modern disease known as bubonic plague, according to a team of anthropologists studying on these 14th century epidemics.
	www.sciencedaily.com /upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20060815-13283600-bc-poland-blackmadonna.xml (1627 words)

	InsideOut Travel—Czestochowa Poland's Black Madonna Cont.
		The Black Madonna is veiled and unveiled in an elaborate ceremony held several times a day.
		Klasztor Paulinow traditionally served as a symbol of protection for a beleaguered nation; its miraculous icon is said to have kept everyone from the Swedes to the Soviets at bay.
		Today, in relatively prosperous Poland, the Black Madonna is an extraordinarily self-sufficient pilgrimage site run by modern monks who resemble less their modest forbearers than they do their Polish-American progeny, Martha Kostyra Stewart.
	www.insideoutmag.com /0505/destpolandjump0505.htm (864 words)

	Lydia Ruyle
		The Black Madonna of Pescasseroli is Incoronata, crowned.
		SipontoThe Black Madonna at Siponto in Apulia is known as the madonna with gli occhi sbaratti, or staring eyes.
		In the Afro-Brazilian tradition, the Black Madonna Aparecida is connected to Orixá Oxum the Great Mother of Africa; patroness of pregnancy, children, rivers, seas, gold, honey, laughter, beauty, seduction, shrewdness and wisdom, our Supreme Ancestral Mother.
	www.lydiaruyle.com /blackmadonnaspage1.html (813 words)

	Black Madonnas--Our Lady of Czestochowa
		The image of Our Lady in Czestochowa, Poland [at right] is among that small group of Black Madonnas recognized throughout the entire world, largely due to the recent manifestations of public piety shown by the reigning Polish Pope, John Paul II.
		Accepting this as a heavenly sign that the portrait was to remain in Czestochowa, St. Ladislaus had the image solemnly returned to the Church of the Assumption.
		In more recent times, the Czestochowa Madonna has also been acknowledged for her protection of and cooperation with the Polish nation.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/meditations/olczest.html (980 words)

	U.S. and NATO Forces Visit the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (22 November 2006) - U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Warsaw, ...
		As the pilgrimage drew to a close, blistered and weary troops collectively marched the final two kilometers down Czestochowa’s main thoroughfare to the cheers of thousands of spectators lining the city’s streets.
		As participants climbed one final hill to Jasna Gora, the fortress-monastery that houses the Black Madonna, loudspeakers hanging from the balconies of the medieval structure boomed out greetings.
		Edward Pietrzyk, commander in chief of Polish Land Forces, and to commanders from other participating armies who marched the final leg of the pilgrimage to reach the Black Madonna, a painting whose age is unknown.
	poland.usembassy.gov /poland/czestochowa1.html (778 words)

	Courtly Lives - Czestochowa
		The history, traditions, and miracles of Czestochowa are part of the heritage of the Polish people.
		After the 1925 restoration, the dresses were never put directly on the painting, from that point on there was always a protective device between the painting and the dresses.
		The princess showed her gratitude by presenting a silver plaque to Czestochowa to commemerate her rescue.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Czestochowa.html (2323 words)

	Black Madonna of Czestochowa
		It is known as the 'Black Madonna" because of the soot residue that discolors the painting.
		With the decline of communism in Poland, pilgrimages to the Black Madonna have increased dramatically.
		Protect our young from godless ways; assist our dear ones grown old with age to prepare for their journey home; shield our defenceless unborn from the horrors of abortion, and be our strength against all sin.
	members.chello.nl /~l.de.bondt/Czestochowa.htm (898 words)

	Black Madonna of Czestochowa
		Each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors visit Czestochowa, to see the painting of the Black Madonna with baby Jesus.
		It is believed to be Our Lady’s Will for the inflictions to remain and act as a sign to others who chose to desecrate Her shrine.
		It is believed that flames and smoke of fire destroyed the image and therefore is know as the “Black Madonna.” It is also believed that Her fl skin is meant to teach us that we should not judge others, especially by their skin colour.
	homepages.ihug.com.au /~kwasan/Html/Czestochowa.htm (390 words)

	BAGnewsNotes: More Sacrilege: Black Madonna
		The clothes, however, belong to another Madonna – the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, considered to be the holiest painting in Poland, with thousands of pilgrims walking across Poland to reach it every year:
		The Black Madonna is known for her resilience and adaptability.
		With or without a White or Black Madonna the Roman Catholic church in the third word is threatened by the Evangelicals.
	bagnewsnotes.typepad.com /bagnews/2006/02/more_sacrilege_.html#more (2718 words)

	:: BlackElectorate.com ::
		According to Stevens-Arroyo, for Iberians (predecessors of the Spaniards) in the 10th century, that meant depicting the Madonna as a brunette, in defiance of the blond images that were being imported from France.
		The stories that accompany these fl figures vary depending on the cultural context, but they often emphasize a connection with a specific ethnic group and feature a miraculous tale of the statue's appearance in a particular country.
		They believe that the two scars on the cheek of the fl Madonna - believed to have been created centuries ago in Poland when the image was attacked by invaders - actually signify that she is of African origin.
	www.blackelectorate.com /print_article.asp?ID=967 (765 words)

	The Cutting Edge Radio Program - Transcript of VIRGIN MARY AND PAGAN GODDESS WORSHIP.
		Galland continues her study of Black Goddess worship by attending a Black Madonna seminar given by another New Age author, Gilles Quispel, who is the Historian Of Religion at Utrecht University.
		What Quispel is saying is that the Black Madonna is such a basic, foundational element in the deepest recesses in the minds of all men, that she is the only answer to man's most critical needs.
		The Black Madonna is the one common denominator among the religions of the world.
	www.cuttingedge.org /ce1008.html (3209 words)

	Black Madonna of Czestochowa Plaque 9"-Sacred Source
		Black Madonna of Czestochowa Queen of Poland is an icon in the national shrine guarded by the Monks of St. Paul of the Desert.
		The Black Madonna, be She called Isis, or Mary, or Kali, or Diana, embodies all the aspects of Female Divinity for many millions of people.
		Today, the church is on the verge of declaring the Virgin and a co-redemer (co-redemtrix) of souls.
	www.sacredsource.com /prodinfo.asp?number=BMC (178 words)

	The Black Madonna
		What the worshippers were eager to kiss was only a mere replica of the revered Black Madonna icon, which centuries ago resided in a hamlet on the Polish-Ukrainian border known as Belz.
		Poland's most revered icon, the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, is believed to have resided in Belz for several centuries until 1382.
		Ukrainian Catholics also revere the icon and hundreds had descended upon Belz for the 1,000-year anniversary in order to pay homage to two replicas of the Black Madonna, which is also referred to as the Virgin of Czestochowa or Our Lady of Czestochowa.
	www.ukraine-observer.com /articles/217/814 (1495 words)

	Other apparitions of Our Lady - Saragossa, Walsingham, Czestochowa, Knock, LaSallete
		The Black Madonna is a painting of the Madonna and Christ Child which legend states was painted by St. Luke the Evangelist.
		It is known as the 'Black Madonna" because of the soot residue that discolors the painting.
		With the decline of communism in Poland, pilgrimages to the Black Madonna have increased dramatically.
	www.theworkofgod.org /Aparitns/Others2.htm (2473 words)

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