Worshipped for over 600 years, this unique painting of the Virgin Mary and Jesus has fascinated people for ages and still inspires heated discussions among scholars regarding such fundamental issues ...

The 'Black Madonna's' Keystone Station. Daria Sockey News July 22, 2001. ... Americans have become more familiar with the image of the “Black Madonna” of Czestochowa (pronounced Chen-sto-HO-va).

Polish police detained a 58-year-old man after he threw vials of black paint at the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, an ancient Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary believed to work miracles.

Rome, Italy, Jul 19, 2016 / 02:02 am. Our Lady of Czestochowa, also known as the "Black Madonna," will be one of Pope Francis' primary stops during his visit to Poland at the end of this month for ...

The posters, which they distributed in the city of Plock in 2019, were meant to protest what was seen as the hostility of Poland’s influential Catholic church toward LGBTQ people.

There were very few stops on my pilgrimage more anticipated than seeing the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Polish: Matka Boska Czestochowska). Legend attributes the icon to St. Luke the Evangelist ...

Our Lady of Czestochowa is also known as the Black Madonna. Black Madonnas are Byzantine icons created mostly from the 12th-14th centuries in territories under the control of the Christian ...

According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, during the prayer, Archbishop Stanislaw Nowak of Czestochowa and Fr. Izydor Matuszewski, Prior General of the Pauline Fathers who take care of the ...

The US artist Theaster Gates explores the concept of the ‘Black Madonna’ in his latest exhibition, which celebrates images of powerful black women. Alastair Sooke finds out more.

No conservator, for example, would be foolish enough to lighten the flesh tones, grown dark over the centuries, of the “Black Madonna” of Czestochowa, Poland’s holiest relic.

His talk is free. The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for more than 600 years. In every Polish church, there is a reproduction of the Black Madonna.