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The National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa (or simply Czestochowa), known also as the American Czestochowa is a Polish-American Roman Catholic shrine near Doylestown, Pennsylvania, founded in 1953. It houses a reproduction of the Black Madonna icon of Częstochowa, Poland.
It is held each year on the 170-acre (0.69 km 2) grounds of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa (often referred to as “American Czestochowa.") in Doylestown, PA., a northern suburb of Philadelphia, PA. It is a five-day event that takes place during the first two weekends of September (including Labor Day).
English: Trip to Pennsylvania, Remarks at The Polish Festival National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 9/9/1984 Date Taken on 9 September 1984
The Black Madonna of Częstochowa (Polish: Czarna Madonna z Częstochowy; Latin: Imago thaumaturga Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae Conceptae, in Claro Monte, lit. 'Miraculous Image of the Immaculate Conception, the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Crystal Mountain'), also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa (Polish: Matka Boska Częstochowska) is a venerated icon of the Virgin Mary housed at the ...
The Polish Community of Worcester (MA). Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish – Celebrating our Hundredth Anniversary 1903-2003. Worcester, Massachusetts. 2003. Kruszka, Waclaw (1998). A History of the Poles in America to 1908; Part III: Poles in the Eastern and Southern States. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press.
The architect for the 1904 building was T. Edwards of Dorchester, MA. Between 1906 and 1908, three Felician nuns from Buffalo were brought in to teach in the basement of the church. In 1911 a school was completed including a hall in the basement for parish functions. By 1926 school enrollment increased from an initial 103 students to 642.
Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish is a parish in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1893 and was designated for Polish immigrants at Dorchester Ave in Dorchester . This is one of Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Archdiocese of Boston .
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