“Behold, your mother…from that hour the disciple took her to his own home” (John 19:27)
Coinciding with the Catholic Church’s celebration of All Souls Day on November 2, the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa graced the Kingdom of Belgium. The Icon was solemnly transferred to the Belgian delegation at the Aachen Cathedral in Germany at 12 noon.
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Around noon on October 31, Our Lady came to Hannover, Germany (Eng. Hanover) in the Diocese of Hildesheim and stopped at the Basilica of St. Clement. The church was filled with a large crowd of people. Father Tenge, the pastor of the basilica, presided over the solemn Liturgy of the Eucharist. Among the concelebrating priests was the prelate, Fr. Stanislaw Budyń, the president of the Polish Catholic Mission in Germany.
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Late in the evening of October 30, Our Lady in the Icon of Czestochowa arrived in the eighth district of Berlin called Neukölln, where she stopped at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, the largest Catholic church in Berlin. The basilica functions as the "cathedra," or Episcopal seat, of the Military Ordinariate of Germany, which is immediately subject to the Holy See and provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the German Armed Forces and their families. Since the year 2004, it is also the Seat of the Polish Catholic Mission in Germany.
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Our Blessed Mother arrived at the capital of Germany – Berlin – in the evening, on October 30, and stopped in the very center of the city, at the Archbishop's Cathedral of St. Hedwig. It is interesting to note here that this church was consecrated in the year 1747 by the Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland), the Most Reverend Ignatius Krasicki - known for his great poetry.
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Our Lady managed to arrive in Dresden only late in the evening on the 29th of October, and with more than an hour's delay. The Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa stood in the chapel of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver - a great mentor and apostle of Black slaves in America. Despite a very late evening hour for a visit at the convent, the Sisters were very hospitable.
- The church of Holy Trinity - Leipzig
- In Erfurt at St. Ursula's Parish
- At the Polish Mission in Kassel
- Life Mobile" accident in Fulda, Germany
- With a brass band through Würzburg
- 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