Our Lady of Jazłowiec is an iconic representation in

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, commissioned in 1883 in

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for the convent of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the historic village of

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, then in

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-occupied Poland, now in

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, still a place of pilgrimage. The neoclassical carving by Tomasz Oskar Sosnowski, is 170cm high on a plinth 24cm wide. *In 1883 the statue was blessed by Archbishop

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. *In 1919 the 14th Jazlowiec Uhlan Regiment declared the image to be their ''

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''. *On 9 July 1939, the statue, granted a

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, was crowned by Cardinal

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*In May 1946 the statue was moved, with the remaining religious, to Szymanów in

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. 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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