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A religious hymn to the Virgin Mary dating back to between 10th and 13th centuries. It was a de facto national anthem of medieval Poland, sung at royal coronations and on battlefields, including the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and the Battle of Varna in 1444.
Bogurodzica is a prayer hymn whose first stanza contains an invocation to Christ through the intercession of Mary. It begins with an apostrophe to her - to the Mother of Christ, the Virgin, praised by God, the chosen one. After the apostrophe, there is an appeal to Mary to win favour for people from her Son.
On 12 October 1923, Sacred Congregation of Rites designated Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland on 3 May and included to Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary phrasing Queen of the Polish Crown (which after World War II has been changed for "Queen of Poland"). [9] In 1925 Pope Pius XI expanded the cult of Mary for all dioceses in Poland.
Bogurodzica is a medieval Polish hymn, possibly composed by Adalbert of Prague (d. 997). The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is a Roman Catholic feast day introduced in 1969, based on older traditions associating 1 January with the motherhood of Mary. [e] [35] [f] [36]
Hymns to Mary began to flourish with the growing veneration of the Virgin Mary in the 11th and 12th centuries, and the Ave Maria became well established. [14] Marian hymns in the Western Church grew even faster during the 13th century as the Franciscans began to compose a number of lasting hymns.
The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Warsaw in Warsaw, where the devotion was first held in 1704, as painted by Bernardo Bellotto, 1778 [1]. Gorzkie żale (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡɔʂkʲe ˈʐalɛ] Lenten (or Bitter Lamentations) is a Catholic devotion containing many hymns that developed out of Poland in the 18th century.
Szymanowski's had composed his Stabat Mater in the 1920s, his first sacred composition with a Polish text, and dedicated to a Marian hymn, the Stabat Mater.In 1930, Anna Iwaszkiewiczowa pointed him at Polish poem in seven stanzas by Jerzy Liebert, titled "Litania do Najświętszej Marii Panny" (Litany to the Blessed Virgin Mary).
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 ...