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    The Jasna Góra Monastery (Polish: Jasna Góra [ˈjas.na ˈɡu.ra] , Luminous or Light Mountain, Latin: Clarus Mons) in Częstochowa, Poland, is a shrine dedicated...
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    the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa. Their month-long siege, however, was unsuccessful, as a small force consisting of monks from the Jasna Góra monastery...
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    miraculously saved the monastery of Jasna Góra (English: Bright Mount) from a Swedish invasion. The Siege of Jasna Góra took place in the winter of 1655 during...
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  • Jasna Góra (meaning "bright hill") may refer to the following places in Poland: Jasna Góra Monastery, an important pilgrimage site in Częstochowa Jasna...
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  • 1663, prior of Jasna Góra, on August 3, 1666, vicar of the province and prior of Jasna Góra, on August 12, 1669, prior of Jasna Góra, and on April 7...
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    the church. Jasna Góra Parks are two city parks (Stanisław Staszic Park and 3 May Park) located in the city centre, on the slope of Jasna Góra Hill. The...
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    of Jasna Góra, which slighted Pulaski. Nonetheless, he continued as the de facto commander of Confederate troops stationed in and around Jasna Góra. Between...
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    'Prachystaya': Belarus The Presidential Harvest Festival in Spała and Jasna Góra Harvest Festival: Poland, first week of September to begin the first week...
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    sanctuary-fortress of Poland held off its enemies in the Siege of Jasna Góra. The defense of Jasna Góra galvanized Polish resistance against the Swedes. The news...
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    revitalised royal vows. On 26 August 1956 at Jasna Góra Monastery about one million of Polish ancestors donated Jasna Góra Vows of the Polish Nation [pl]. On 3...
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  • Jasna Góra [ˈjasna ˈɡura] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Mokrsko, within Wieluń County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies...
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    Lake Jasna (Slovene: Jezero Jasna) is the name of two interconnected artificial lakes located near Kranjska Gora along the road to the Vršič Pass. The...
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    history of the nation took place in Lesser Poland. It was the Siege of Jasna Góra, which, according to some accounts, turned the course of the war. Furthermore...
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    Pławniowice, Sosnowiec and Złoty Potok. Often visited is the Black Madonna's Jasna Góra Sanctuary in Częstochowa – the annual destination of over 4 million pilgrims...
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  • as a traitor. In the second part, Kmicic overhears plans to loot the Jasna Góra monastery, a revered Polish sanctuary. He warns the monastery’s prior...
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    Jasna Góra [ˈjasna ˈɡura] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bogatynia, within Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western...
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    is a Catholic place of veneration of the replica of the Our Lady of Jasna Góra, a Black Madonna. The shrine is ministered by the Order of Saint Paul...
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    There are works of reportage: Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Góry (Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra) (1894), Z ziemi chełmskiej (From the Chełm Lands) (1910 – about the persecutions...
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    of the congregation are the historical Polish Monastery of Our Lady of Jasna Góra (Our Lady of Bright Mountain) in Częstochowa, Poland, with its Miraculous...
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    storm) hanging in a Söderköping church Ex-votos in the Lady Chapel of Jasna Góra, Częstochowa Several body parts in a Cypriot plaque from the Roman age...
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    Council and Honors Mary", New York Times (November 22, 1964): 1. "Monastery Jasna Góra, Pauline Monks in Czestochowa Poland - Photography". Archived from the...
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    (1654–1667) Siege of Ochakov (1788) 1853 Battle of Raszyn, 1855 Siege of Jasna Góra (1655) 1845 List of Polish artists Encyklopedja Powszechna S. Orgelbranda...
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    his black hair and his custom-made, black armor, which is kept at the Jasna Góra Monastery. Sir Ralph de Ashton was an officer of state under Edward IV...
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  • Walking Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra in 1981. Before this occurred, groups of pilgrims from Wrocław had already been walking to Jasna Góra since 1956. Between...
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    Baroque stucco decorations of the main nave of the Jasna Góra Monastery basilica, 1693–1695...
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    The Deluge and accordingly because of the increase of levies paid to Jasna Góra monastery, the city began to deteriorate. For hundreds of centuries, until...
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    of building a chapel dedicated to the Black Madonna of Częstochowa at Jasna Góra Monastery, Poland's most important religious icon, to reconnect Polish-Americans...
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    Icon of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, covered in a decorative silver shield, at the Jasna Góra Monastery in Poland...
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  • John Paul II. The main sanctuary of Poland is the Pauline Monastery on Jasna Góra in Częstochowa. Millions of pilgrims from Poland and all over the world...
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    (Polish: Światowe Dni Młodzieży 1991) was held on 10–15 August 1991 in Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, Poland. The choice of another European city after Santiago...
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