After departing Zagreb, Our Blessed Mother rode through Karlovac. This town is important for Croatian pro-life movemnt becaue there the first Croatian memorial, shaped in the form of the Merciful Jesus, dedicated to the unborn, innocent children has been erected in the local cemetery. Our Lady's journey to Udbina took Her through a region that was the last barrier of Christianity against the attack of the Ottoman Turks.
On Saturday, September 22nd, the stars were still shining above Zagreb and it had barely started dawning, when Our Blessed Mother in the Czestochowa Icon was leaving the Marian Shrine in Remete heading towards south.
Just before the car with the trailer get on the highway Dalmatina, a short detour took Her to a very special place in the southern suburbs of the Capital.
On Friday afternoon, September 21st, the faithful in Trnovcica were bidding Our Lady farewell with regret and great emotion. She was leaving for the Shrine of Our Lady of Remete located in the northern part of Zagreb on the slopes of Mount Sljeme. It is the oldest Marian shrine in Croatia, founded by the Pauline Emerites in 1288 A.D. The name "Remete" comes from the Latin word for hermitage - eremus (hermit in Croatian).
We are grateful to all of you, who have supported this great work of peregrination of the Czestochowa Icon "From Ocean to Ocean" - for your heartfelt prayers and for your financial gifts from the heart.
From the shores of the Pacific Ocean in Vladivostok on June 15th, to this day, September 22nd, - 100 days have passed! Our Blessed Mother Mary in the Icon of Czestochowa, peregrinating across the world for the protection of the civilization of life, has already traveled 30 thousand kilometers and 12 countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia. Currently, the Icon is peregrinating in Croatia.
The next 11 countries are preparing for the visit of Our Lady: Italy, Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, and Portugal. Hence, the whole world is yet before us, and the plans are very broad - and to think this appeared to be quite impossible!
- All-night prayer vigil with the priests of the Sacred Heart - Zagreb
- Our Blessed Mother in the capital of Croatia – Zagreb (Trnovcica)
- Between Slovenia and Croatia
- The Virgin Mary in the Czestochowa Icon is traveling across Slovenia
- On the way to the Adriatic
- Our Lady of Czestochowa visits Slovenia
- Through the great Hungary with the Icon of Czestochowa
- With the Czestochowa Icon In the Footsteps of the Hungarian Pauline Fathers
- The journey through Romania
- From Ukraine across Hungary to Romania