Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Jasna Gora Monastery near Czestochowa is Poland's national shrine and has been a pilgrim destination since the Middle Ages.Credit ...

CZESTOCHOWA-- Pope Francis missed a step and fell to the ground Thursday as he was coming to an open-air altar to celebrate Mass at Poland's holiest shrine of Jasna Gora. In a dramatic moment ...

The pontiff opens his first full day in the country with a visit to the storied Jasna Góra Monastery (which is Polish for “luminous mount”), which houses the revered icon of the Black Madonna ...

Uphill in the distance, beyond the trees, the baroque spire of the Jasna Gora monastery points triumphantly towards heaven above a rambling maze of high walls and battlements. Most Poles have ...

The incident happened during Holy Mass at Poland's holiest shrine of Jasna Gora. — -- Pope Francis took a fall as he arrived for Holy Mass at Poland's holiest shrine of Jasna Gora on Thursday.

Late last week, I made a trip to Krakow, and then to Czestochowa, to visit the Jasna Gora shrine, the spiritual heart of Polish Catholicism. Though I am no longer a Catholic, it was deeply moving ...

The Mass was celebrated at the foot of the Jasna Gora monastery in southern Poland. The shrine to the Virgin Mary holds the revered "Black Madonna of Czestochowa," a 14th century icon that ...

Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Jasna Gora Parishes held their last Sunday Masses on June 13 and June 20, respectively. According to Father Tomasz Borkowski, who served as pastor at both ...

Built in 1913 and designated for Polish immigrants, Our Lady of Jasna Gora held its last Mass in 2010, after it was announced by the diocese that two of the town's three churches, Our Lady of ...