A man hurled cans of paint at Poland’s most sacred icon on Sunday in an attack that failed to damage the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora but shocked ... southern city of Czestochowa, police said.

The restored painting, decorated again with jewelry, was brought back to Jasna Góra. For over 150 years scholars have been working to study these legends in order to answer the complex and mysterious ...

There were very few stops on my pilgrimage more anticipated than seeing the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Polish ... attributed to the icon: saving Jasna Góra (Bright Mount) Monastery from ...

Pope Francis falls as he arrives at the Jasna Gora shrine in Czestochowa ... He was watching Madonna. Sort of. “I was looking at [an image of] the Madonna, and I forgot the step,” he said ...

Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the "Black Madonna," will be one of Pope ... He is set to visit the monastery of Jasna Gora, which houses the image, July 28, where he will offer Mass ...

CZESTOCHOWA ... gazed in awe for several minutes at the Jasna Gora monastery shrine's iconic image of the so-called Black Madonna and Child. The faces in the images are blackened by centuries ...

A reproduction of the icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the Black Madonna ... Father Roman Majewski, prior of Jasna Gora, wrote of the pilgrimage online at FromOceantoOcean.org ...

The traditional walking pilgrimage to venerate an icon of the Black Madonna ... Pilgrims at Jasna Gora this year also marked the 30th anniversary of World Youth Day in Czestochowa during which ...

Jasna Gora Monastery near Czestochowa is ... The latest is John Paul II, who credited the Black Madonna of Czestochowa with his surviving a 1981 assassination attempt. The pope's bullet-punctured ...

Czestochowa (Agenzia Fides) – A delegation of monks from the Russian Orthodox Church, who are visiting Poland September 23-29, yesterday (September 24), participated in a time of Marian Prayer ...

Invisible understandings came when the Black Madonna of Częstochowa pilgrim ... The original icon has been housed for six centuries at the Jasna Gora Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland.

WARSAW (Reuters) - A man hurled cans of paint at Poland's most sacred icon on Sunday in an attack that failed to damage the Black Madonna of Jasna Gora but ... city of Czestochowa, police said.