On the sixth day of the pilgrimage through Germany, Monday - October 29, the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa made a sojourn in the Holy Trinity Church in Leipzig. The service was conducted and blessings given by Reverend Lothar Vierhock – the pastor of the parish. Since the visit in Leipzig took place on a Monday, the coordinators of the pilgrimage decided to recall the traditional Monday marches that took place in the 80s in favor of freedom and democracy.
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On Monday, October 29, the Icon of Czestochowa arrived in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, at the parish of St. Ursula on the Gera River. Our Blessed Mother was welcomed in the Erfurt Ursuline convent. In the year 1535, St. Angela Merici founded the Association of St. Ursula in Italy, whose main focus was the education of young women.
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After the unfortunate accident of the Life Mobile in Fulda, Our Lady of Czestochowa arrived on October 28 by car, with only a slight delay in Kassel, at the church dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima - the Queen of Peace. Reverend Julian Marecik, the pastor of the Polish Catholic Mission, organized a grand welcome.
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In the morning of October 28, an accident occurred in Fulda. The "Life Mobile," in which the Icon of Czestochowa was being transported, was seriously damaged. The organizers did not realize that the entrance gate was too low. Even though the speed was not high, the impact was very strong, which was caused just by the mere weight of the shrine on wheels. In effect, all the glass of the encasement was badly damaged. This was bullet-proof glass and type P4 glued. It is not easy to shatter this type of glass, which will not even scratch when a rock is thrown at it from a 2-meter distance.
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On Saturday, Oct. 27, Our Lady of Czestochowa visited Würzburg, Germany. It is a city situated on the Main River, in the north-west part of Bavaria, known as Franconia. The pastor of the Romanesque Cathedral of St. Kiljana, Rev. Dr. Jurgen Vorndran, together with Father Jerzy (George) Sobota, the pastor of St. Gertrude Polish Catholic Mission, welcomed Our Blessed Mother with the celebration of the Holy Mass.
- The Black Madonna at the Shrine of the Black Madonna, the Queen of Bavaria in Altotting
- With prayer at an abortion clinic in Munich
- Our Lady of Czestochowa at the Polish Mission in Munich
- First visit on German soil
- Our Blessed Mother is visiting Germany
- Cathedral St. Gallen – the last stop in the Swiss Confederation
- Radio Maria, Oberriet, K-TV
- In the cathedral in Solothurn, Zurich, and on an island on Rhine
- 137 days + 2,000,000 people + 30,000 km
- The icon at Radio Gloria in Baldegg and in the monastery Maria Hilf in Gubel