On Saturday, September 8th, - on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa was presented to the Hungarians. Imre Teglasy, the head of the Hungarian pro-life movement "Alfa," belonging to the Human Life International organization, had arrived.
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In the morning of the 8th of September, the Icon was taken to Ľutina. The town is famous for its private apparitions to St. Nicholas on the Feast of the Transfiguration in 1851, which have since been approved by the Vatican. Many Greek-Orthodox groups go there on pilgrimage. In 1988, the Holy Father - Blessed Pope John Paul II - consecrated the newly built shrine and pronounced it a Basilica Minor.
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Friday, 7th September began in Prešov, the second biggest city in Slovakia, which lies in the South of the country. The Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa was being venerated through the whole night at the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky. The Divine Liturgy was then celebrated by Fr. Peter Dobrík.
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Early morning Thursday, on September 6th, Our Blessed Mother during Her peregrination in Slovakia, visited a most beautiful gothic-baroque style Seminary Church of St. Anthony of Padua in the center of Košice, where a large group of Slovakian priests were just finishing their retreat.
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Awakening a great interest of the local residents, the Life Mobile brought the Icon of Our Blessed Mother from Kežmark to Mount Zvir in Litmanova, on Wednesday - the 5th of August. The name of Mount Zvir comes from the Slovak word "zwor," which means connection. This old symbolic name is associated with the spiritual link of people who are making a pilgrimage to Our Lady.
- Our Blessed Mother strengthens faith
- Meeting with St. Cyril at the castle of Nitra with bells ringing
- Fifteen hundred men on their knees before Our Blessed Mother in Slovakia
- With the Icon of Jasna Gora in defence of life in the Czech Republic
- She has arrived despite of lost wheel
- Slovakia warmly greets Our Blessed Mother
- The last day in the Czech Republic - transferring the Icon to the Slovaks
- Mary's meeting with St. Luke
- Whether the World will continue to exist, is dependent on our Freedom
- Olomouc – Mother – please forgive sins against life!