Szymanów () 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 to ...

in the administrative district of

Gmina Teresin __NOTOC__ Gmina Teresin is a rural gmina (administrative district) in Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Teresin, Sochaczew County, Teresin, which lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) south ...

, within Sochaczew County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Sochaczew and west of

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Marian shrine

The original marble sculpture of

Our Lady of Jazłowiec Our Lady of Jazłowiec is an iconic representation in Carrara marble of Mary, mother of Jesus, commissioned in 1883 in Rome for the convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the historic village of Yazlov ...

was brought there in 1946, by the Immaculate Conception Sisters, fleeing

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

occupation 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 ...

, where the shrine had evolved since 1883 in the original "Mother House", and is now in

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

. A faithful copy was installed in Yazlovets in the 1990s. The current headquarters of the order has been in Szymanów since 1933.

References

Villages in Sochaczew County {{Sochaczew-geo-stub