On September 25, 2013, the pilgrim icon visited the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church (more commonly known as St. Mary’s) in York, PA founded by St. John Neumann.
St. John Neumann was a Czech immigrant who left his native Bohemia to become a priest. Neumann had completed his seminary studies, but his bishop was not ordaining any more priests, for the time being, because he had so many priests. Neumann sought a bishop all over Europe, but the story was always the same. Bishops did not need more priests.
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Shortly before leaving Philadelphia, I brought the icon to the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters also more commonly known as the Pink Sisters. These sisters are devoted to perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. They were surprised and delighted by the visit of Our Lady of Czestochowa to their convent if only for a few hours. I was happy to bring the icon to the sisters and ask for their prayers for the success of the peregrination, for as St. Paul says “For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.” (Ephesians 6,12).
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Philadelphia was founded by William Penn in 1682. It was in Philadelphia that the Founding Fathers of the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 and the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787. Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in the United States.
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On September 14, on the Feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Our Lady left the sanctuary of Emmitsburg to pray before three abortion mills in one day. Two of the mills were in Maryland; the third in Delaware.
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On Friday September 13th, the pilgrim icon was taken from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary to the Chapel of St. Mary on the Hill at National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto.
It was here that, in 1724, Catholics came seeking relief from religious persecution. The first Catholics had come to Maryland in 1634. The colony they founded ("Mary's Land") was the first to explicitly respect the rights of others to freely practice the faith. But in 1645, during the English Civil War, Puritans from the neighboring colony of Jamestown, Virginia invaded and burned St. Mary’s City to the ground.
- Our Lady Visits Her Future Priests at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary on the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary
- A Light Shines in the Darkness - September 11
- Our Lady of Czestochowa Reveals Herself as a Mother of Mercy at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Fairfax, Virginia
- Our Lady Visits Front Royal, Virginia - Home of Human Life International
- Labor Day with Our Lady of Czestochowa at St. John the Evangelist Church in Warrenton VA
- Visit of pilgrim icon to St. Michael's Church in Annandale, Virginia for Saturday-Sunday August 29 - September 1, 2013
- Visit of pilgrim icon to Holy Trinity Church in Gainesville, VA August 29, 2013
- Crowds Pray with Czestochowa Icon Outside of Abortion Mills in Maryland - a Life-Saving Impact in America
- Baltimore - from the water front of the Potapsco river to the Holy Rosary Church
- Solemn welcome Our Lady of Czestochowa in America