Sanctuary Jasna Góra Częstochowa with Black Madonna Picture
Price includes travel from Krakow to Czestochowa, waiting 3 hours and back to Krakow. If You want more time waiting, each additional hour waiting + 30,- pln for car. Price does not include admission tickets, or a guide. Total Time 7 hours.
The band picturesque limestone hills, stretching from Krakow to the Wielun, called "trail eagle nests, the Warta river is the town of Czestochowa. It is assumed that the name comes from the Slavic name "Częstoch" which bore the founder of the settlement. In the western part of town known as the fourteenth century, Old Czestochowa, rises to a height of 293 m above sea level limestone hill, where there is a complex religious and residential buildings, surrounded by ramparts and a park, called Jasna Gora. For the first time the term "Jasna Gora" / Clarus Mons / appears in a document from 1388 year, issued by the governor of Olsztyn. The name "Bright Mountain" hill gave Pauline monks from Hungary, to borrow the term from the home monastery of St. Lawrence at Jasna Gora in Buda /in Claro Monte Budensi/. Hailing from the Traffic Order eremickiego St. Paul the First Hermit / OO. Pauline / from the XIII century in Hungary. Founder of the Order - Bl. Eusebius, Canon archbishop - gathered in a community of hermits living on land today Hungary and Yugoslavia. Principle of organization of religious life has become for the rule of St. Pauline. Augustine. You have chosen a Patriarch of the Order St. Paul of Thebes, called by tradition the first hermit. He was born around 230, in Egypt. During the persecution of Christians the reign of Emperor Decius, 16 years old, went to the desert, where according to tradition, written by Saint. Jerome stayed for 90 years. His food was bread, daily przynoszony the raven, and a handful of dates. Late in life he was visited by St. Anthony Abbot. He also buried in the tomb of Paul's body, which - as the administration says - two lions dug. Hence, the coat of arms of the Pauline Order is a palm tree date palm, two lions and a crow with a loaf of bread in its beak.
