Black Madonna of Częstochowa, the Glossary

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1. 75 relations: Aquiline nose, Belarus, Belz, Black Madonna, Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos, Byzantine Empire, Calendar of saints, Canonical coronation, Catholic Church, Charles I of Hungary, Christ Child, Constantine the Great, Constantinople, Copyright, County of Anjou, Croatia, Częstochowa, Deluge (history), Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Duke of Opole, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Encaustic painting, Erzulie, Ezili Dantor, Fleur-de-lis, Głogówek, Golden Rose, Haitian Revolution, Haitian Vodou, Helena, mother of Constantine I, Hodegetria, Holy Family, Holy See, Houston, Hussites, Icon, Jasna Góra Monastery, John II Casimir Vasa, Leo I of Galicia, Louis I of Hungary, Lubliniec, Luke the Evangelist, Lviv, Lwa, Lwów Oath, Mary, mother of Jesus, Middle Ages, Mochów, National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, ... Expand index (25 more) »

2. Catholic Church in Poland
3. Częstochowa
4. Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary
5. National symbols of Poland
6. Pauline Order

Aquiline nose

An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Belz

Belz (Белз; Bełz; בעלז) is a small city in Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine, located near the border with Poland between the Solokiya river (a tributary of the Bug River) and the Richytsia stream.

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Black Madonna

The term Black Madonna or Black Virgin tends to refer to statues or paintings in Western Christendom of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin.

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Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos

The Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos is a Catholic Marian shrine complex located in the unincorporated area south of Pacific, Missouri in the United States. Black Madonna of Częstochowa and Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos are shrines to the Virgin Mary.

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Byzantine Empire

The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.

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Canonical coronation

A canonical coronation (Coronatio Canonica) is a pious institutional act of the pope, duly expressed in a formal decree of a papal bull, in which the pope bestows the pontifical right to impose an ornamental crown, a diadem or an aureole to an image of Christ, Mary or Joseph that is widely venerated in a particular diocese or locality.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charles I of Hungary

Charles I, also known as Charles Robert (Károly Róbert; Karlo Robert; Karol Róbert; 128816 July 1342), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 to his death.

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Christ Child

The Christ Child, also known as Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, the Divine Child, Child Jesus, the Holy Child, Divino Niño, and Santo Niño in Hispanic nations, refers to Jesus Christ from his nativity until age 12.

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Constantine the Great

Constantine I (27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (see other names) became the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.

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Copyright

A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive legal right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time.

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County of Anjou

The County of Anjou (Andegavia) was a French county that was the predecessor to the Duchy of Anjou.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe.

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Częstochowa

Częstochowa is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland.

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Deluge (history)

The Deluge (potop szwedzki; švedų tvanas) was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Doylestown is a borough in and the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Duke of Opole

The following is a list of monarchs who used the title Duke of Opole and controlled the city and the surrounding area either directly or indirectly (see also Duchy of Opole).

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Eastern Orthodoxy

Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.

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Encaustic painting

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added.

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Erzulie

Erzulie (sometimes spelled Erzili or Èzili) is a family of loa, or spirits, in Vodou.

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Ezili Dantor

Èzili Dantò or Erzulie Dantor is the main loa (or lwa) or senior spirit of the Petro family in Haitian Vodou.

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Fleur-de-lis

The fleur-de-lis, also spelled fleur-de-lys (plural fleurs-de-lis or fleurs-de-lys), is a common heraldic charge in the shape of a lily (in French, fleur and lis mean and respectively).

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Głogówek

Głogówek (pronounced, German: Oberglogau, Horní Hlohov, Gogōwek) is a small historic town in southern Poland.

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Golden Rose

The Golden Rose is a gold ornament, which popes of the Catholic Church have traditionally blessed annually.

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Haitian Revolution

The Haitian Revolution (révolution haïtienne or La guerre de l'indépendance; Lagè d Lendependans) was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti.

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Haitian Vodou

Haitian Vodou is an African diasporic religion that developed in Haiti between the 16th and 19th centuries.

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Helena, mother of Constantine I

Flavia Julia Helena (Ἑλένη, Helénē; AD 246/248–330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.

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Hodegetria

A Hodegetria, or Virgin Hodegetria, is an iconographic depiction of the Theotokos (Virgin Mary) holding the Child Jesus at her side while pointing to him as the source of salvation for humankind. Black Madonna of Częstochowa and Hodegetria are Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary.

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Holy Family

The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.

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Holy See

The Holy See (url-status,; Santa Sede), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Hussites

Catholic crusaders in the 15th century The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began in Prague and quickly spread south and then through the rest of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Eventually, it expanded into the remaining domains of the Bohemian Crown as well. The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl.

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Icon

An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches.

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Jasna Góra Monastery

The Jasna Góra Monastery (Jasna Góra, Luminous or Light Mountain, Clarus Mons) in Częstochowa, Poland, is a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary and one of the country's places of pilgrimage. Black Madonna of Częstochowa and Jasna Góra Monastery are shrines to the Virgin Mary.

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John II Casimir Vasa

John II Casimir Vasa (Jan II Kazimierz Waza; Jonas Kazimieras Vaza; 22 March 1609 – 16 December 1672) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1648 to his abdication in 1668 as well as a claimant to the throne of Sweden from 1648 to 1660.

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Leo I of Galicia

Leo I of Galicia (translit; – c. 1301) was King of Ruthenia, Prince of Belz (1245–1264), Peremyshl, Galicia (1264–1269), and Kiev (1271–1301).

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Louis I of Hungary

Louis I, also Louis the Great (Nagy Lajos; Ludovik Veliki; Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian (Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370.

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Lubliniec

Lubliniec (Lublinitz) is a town in southern Poland with 23,784 inhabitants (2019).

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Luke the Evangelist

Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Lwa

italic, also called loa, are spirits in the African diasporic religion of Haitian Vodou and Dominican Vúdu.

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Lwów Oath

The Lwów Oath (Śluby lwowskie) was an oath made on April 1, 1656 by Polish king John II Casimir in Latin cathedral in the city of Lwów (today Lviv, western Ukraine).

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Mochów

Mochów (German Mochau, Mochōw) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Głogówek, within Prudnik County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, close to the Czech border.

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National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa

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. Black Madonna of Częstochowa and National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa are Częstochowa, paintings of the Madonna and Child and Pauline Order.

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Northern War of 1655–1660

The Northern War of 1655–1660, also known as the Second Northern War, First Northern War or Little Northern War, was fought between Sweden and its adversaries the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1655–60), the Tsardom of Russia (1656–58), Brandenburg-Prussia (1657–60), the Habsburg monarchy (1657–60) and Denmark–Norway (1657–58 and 1658–60).

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Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.

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Orthodox Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa

The Orthodox Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa (Cerkiew Częstochowskiej Ikony Matki Bożej w Częstochowie) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Częstochowa, Poland that honors the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa, one of the country's national symbols.

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Our Lady of Częstochowa-St Casimir Parish

Our Lady of Częstochowa-St Casimir Parish is a church in New York City at 24th Street in Brooklyn.

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Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland

Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland, Our Lady of Licheń, or Virgin of Licheń is a Roman Catholic icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by its Polish faithful. Black Madonna of Częstochowa and Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland are Angels in art, Catholic Church in Poland and national symbols of Poland.

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Petwo lwa

The Petwo (Petwo), also spelled Petro and alternatively known as, are a family of lwa (loa) spirits in the religion of Haitian Vodou.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Pope Clement XI

Pope Clement XI (Clemens XI; Clemente XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Pope Pius X

Pope Pius X (Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914.

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Prudnik

Prudnik (Prudnik, Prōmnik, Neustadt in Oberschlesien, Neustadt an der Prudnik, Prudnicium) is a town in southern Poland, located in the southern part of Opole Voivodeship near the border with the Czech Republic.

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Riza

A riza (Russian: риза, "vestment," "robe"; Ukrainian: шати, shaty, "vestments") or oklad (оклад, "covered"), sometimes called a "revetment" in English, is a metal cover protecting an icon.

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Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, Penrose Park

The Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, commonly known as Penrose Park (located in the Southern Highlands, NSW), is a Catholic place of veneration of the replica of the Our Lady of Jasna Góra, a Black Madonna. Black Madonna of Częstochowa and Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, Penrose Park are shrines to the Virgin Mary.

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Siege of Jasna Góra

The siege of Jasna Góra (also known less accurately as the battle of Częstochowa, Oblężenie Jasnej Góry.) took place in the winter of 1655 during the Second Northern War, or 'The Deluge' – as the Swedish invasion of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is known.

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Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis

The Sisters of St.

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Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.

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Szlachta

The szlachta (Polish:; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and, as a social class, dominated those states by exercising political rights and power.

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The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland

The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland (Najświętsza Maryja Panna Królowa Polski) (also translated as Our Lady, Queen of Poland or Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland, etc.) is an honorary title for Mary, mother of Jesus, used by Polish Catholics.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainian folk music

Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.

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University of Dayton

The University of Dayton (UD) is a private, Catholic research university in Dayton, Ohio.

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Vladislaus II of Opole

Vladislaus II of Opole (Władysław Opolczyk, Wladislaus von Oppeln, Oppelni László, Владислав Опольчик; ca. 1332 – 18 May 1401), nicknamed Naderspan, was Duke of Opole from 1356, Count palatine of Hungary (1367–1372), Duke of Wieluń (1370–1392), Governor of Ruthenia (1372–1378), Count palatine of Poland (1378) as well as Duke of Dobrzyń, Inowrocław (1378–1392), Krnov and Kuyavia (1385–1392).

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Catholic Church in Poland

• 2Tm2,3
• Bernardines (Franciscans)
• Black Madonna of Częstochowa
• Boże, coś Polskę
• Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs
• Caritas Poland
• Catholic Church in Poland
• Concordat of 1993
• Cross in front of the Presidential Palace, Warsaw
• Day of Prayers for Prisoners
• Diocesan Museum in Pelplin
• Dissolution of monasteries under the Russian Partition
• Lednica (lake)
• Light-Life Movement
• March for Life and Family
• Missionary Sisters of Christ the King
• Mohair berets
• Niepokalanów
• Our Lady of Calvary
• Our Lady of Jazłowiec
• Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland
• Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
• Our Lady of Łukawiec
• Polish Episcopal Conference
• Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria
• Radio Maryja
• Roman Catholic dioceses in Poland
• Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ludźmierz
• Tadeusz Rydzyk
• World Youth Day 1991
• World Youth Day 2016

Częstochowa

• Black Madonna of Częstochowa
• Częstochowa
• Częstochowa City Council
• History of Częstochowa
• Kiedrzyn, Częstochowa
• List of city mayors of Częstochowa
• National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
• Raków, Częstochowa
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Częstochowa
• Stradom, Częstochowa
• Trams in Częstochowa
• Wyczerpy-Aniołów

Eastern Orthodox icons of the Virgin Mary

• Agiosoritissa
• Axion Estin
• Blachernitissa
• Black Madonna of Częstochowa
• Cathedral of Panagia Portaitissa of Iberia
• Eleusa icon
• Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God
• Hodegetria
• Inexhaustible Chalice
• Joy of All Who Sorrow
• Khakhuli triptych
• Life-giving Spring
• Madonna di sant'Alessio
• Orans of Kyiv
• Our Lady Derzhavnaya
• Our Lady of Kazan
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help
• Our Lady of Philermos
• Our Lady of the Don
• Our Lady of the Sign
• Panagia
• Panagia Ierosolymitissa
• Panagia Kanala
• Panagia Portaitissa
• Pelagonitissa
• The Virgin Eleousa
• Theotokos
• Theotokos Samarska
• Theotokos Uralskaya
• Theotokos of Bogolyubovo
• Theotokos of Buchyn
• Theotokos of Kursk
• Theotokos of Miasena
• Theotokos of Pochayiv
• Theotokos of Port Arthur
• Theotokos of Tikhvin
• Theotokos of Tolga
• Trojeručica
• Ustyug Annunciation
• Virgin of Vladimir

National symbols of Poland

• Banner of Poland
• Black Madonna of Częstochowa
• Bogurodzica
• Borscht
• Coat of arms of Poland
• Drzymała's wagon
• Eagle
• Flag of Poland
• Flags of Poland
• For our freedom and yours
• Gaude Mater Polonia
• God, Honour, Fatherland
• Grunwald Swords
• Kotwica
• Military eagle
• National symbols of Poland
• Naval ensign of Poland
• Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland
• Pierogi
• Poland Is Not Yet Lost
• Polish Air Force checkerboard
• Polish National Flag Day
• Pro Fide, Lege et Rege
• Rodło
• Rota (poem)
• Scythemen
• Semper fidelis
• St. Mary's Trumpet Call
• Szczerbiec
• The Sigismund Bell
• They Feed and Defend
• Toporzeł
• Unofficial mottos of Poland
• Warszawianka (1831)
• We Are the First Brigade

Pauline Order

• Bartholomew le Gros
• Black Madonna of Częstochowa
• National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa
• Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit
• Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
• Santo Stefano degli Ungheresi

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna_of_Częstochowa

Also known as Black Madonna of Czestochowa, Czarna Madonna, Imago thaumaturga Beatae Virginis Mariae Immaculatae Conceptae, Lady of Czestochowa, Madonna of Częstochowa, Matka Boska Częstochowska, Our Lady of Czestochova, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Our Lady of Czestohowa, Our Lady of Częstochowa, Our Lady of Jasna Gora, The Black Madonna of Czestochowa, The Black Madonna of Częstochowa.

, Northern War of 1655–1660, Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), Orthodox Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa, Our Lady of Częstochowa-St Casimir Parish, Our Lady of Sorrows, Queen of Poland, Petwo lwa, Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Pope Clement XI, Pope John Paul II, Pope Pius X, Prudnik, Riza, Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy, Penrose Park, Siege of Jasna Góra, Sisters of St. Joseph of the Third Order of St. Francis, Slovenia, Szlachta, The Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland, Ukraine, Ukrainian folk music, Ukrainians, University of Dayton, Vladislaus II of Opole, World War II.