Our Lady of Jazłowiec is an iconic representation in Carrara marble of

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, commissioned in 1883 in

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for the convent of the

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in the historic village of

Yazlovets Yazlovets ( uk, Язловець, Yazlovets; pl, Jazłowiec; russian: Яблуновка, Yablunovka; yi, יאַזלאָוויץ, Yazlovits; he, יאזלובייץ, Yazlovits) is a village in Chortkiv Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine. It is a ...

, then in

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-occupied Poland, now in

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, still a place of pilgrimage. The Neoclassicism, neoclassical carving by Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski, is 170cm high on a plinth 24cm wide. *In 1883 the statue was blessed by Archbishop Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński. *In 1919 the 14th Jazlowiec Uhlan Regiment declared the image to be their ''Hetman''. *On 9th July 1939, the statue, granted a Canonical coronation by Pope Pius XII, was crowned by Cardinal August Hlond *In May 1946 the statue was moved, with the remaining religious, to Szymanów, Sochaczew County, Szymanów in Poland. A faithful copy of the original has since been installed in Yazlovets.

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* ''Z dawna Polski Tyś Królową. Przewodnik po sanktuariach maryjnych''. Szymanów, 1996 (in Polish).

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close-ups of the sculptured image and intimations of masculine adulation

List of Marian shrines in Poland, from University of Dayton
, Ohio]
A description in Polish of the statue and its history.
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