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Our Lady of Czestochowa Roman Catholic Church in Houston, Texas has a copy hanging inside the church to the left of the altar. This version of the icon does not have the heavily gilded gold over the initial image. [13] The American National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa is located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. [14]
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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.
Częstochowa: Our Lady of Czestochowa. In the United States, the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania houses a reproduction of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa. A second shrine to Our Lady of Częstochowa is located near Eureka, Missouri.
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In 1980, St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church, a polish church in Williamsburg was closed and the congregants joined with Our Lady of Częstochowa, at which time the church assumed the new name of Our Lady of Częstochowa-St. Casimir Church. In 1996, the church celebrates its 100th anniversary.
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As an expression of their great love and devotion to the Mother of God, the Polish immigrants named the church Our Lady of Czestochowa, in honor of Mary's most famous shrine in Poland. The church was blessed and dedicated by Bishop Harkins on April 21, 1907. Fr. Franciszek Chalupka of Webster, Massachusetts, was also present at this solemn ...