Gidle is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

Radomsko County __NOTOC__ Radomsko County ( pl, powiat radomszczański) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland. It came into being on 1 January 1999 as a result of the Polish local government re ...

Łódź Voivodeship Łódź Voivodeship (also known as Lodz Province, or by its Polish name ''Województwo łódzkie'' ) is a province- voivodeship in central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 out of the former Łódź Voivodeship (1975–1999) and the Sier ...

, in south-central

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. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called

Gmina Gidle __NOTOC__ Gmina Gidle is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Radomsko County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. Its seat is the village of Gidle, which lies approximately south of Radomsko and south of the regional capital Łódź. ...

. It lies approximately south of

Radomsko Radomsko is a city in southern Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (2021). It is situated on the Radomka river in the Łódź Voivodeship (since 1999), having previously been in Piotrków Voivodeship, Piotrków Trybunalski Voivodeship (1975–1998). ...

and south of the regional capital

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...

. In 2007 the village had a population of 1,540. The previous names of the village included Gidzielice and Gidżle. Gidle is the site of a Dominican monastery with a chapel of the miraculous figure of

Mary, mother of Jesus Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...

. The sanctuary is a destination of religious pilgrimages from all over Poland. File:Gidle, kościół par., ob. fil. p.w. św. Marii Magdaleny 02.JPG, Mary Magdalene Church, built in 1659 File:Gidle zespół klasztorny kartuzów nr 613950 (14).JPG,

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Monastery File:Gidle2.JPG, The stone figure at the main church File:Kapliczka przydrozna, Gidle.JPG, A roadside chapel File:Gidle8.JPG, 17th-century painted testimonies of miraculous healings File:Gidle9.JPG, 17th-century painted testimonies of miraculous healings File:Gidle4.JPG, Main altar in the church File:Gidle5.JPG, Details of the altar File:Gidle6.JPG, Stained-glass window showing St. Dominic

References

External links

Official website

Pictures of Gidle and its neighbourhood
Villages in Radomsko County Catholic pilgrimage sites {{Radomsko-geo-stub