The Shrine of
Our Lady of Sorrows
Our Lady of Sorrows (), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are Titles of Mary, names by which Mary, mother of Jesus, is referr ...
is a church in the village of
Stary Wielisław
Stary Wielisław is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kłodzko, in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesia Province, in southwestern Poland. It lies approximately southwest of Kłodzko, and south of the regional capital Wrocław.
Local ...
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
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The church's history goes back to the 10th century, though the current structure dates only to the 15th.
It is one of eight
International shrines of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Church possesses relics of the Holy Cross and of
St. Catherine of Alexandria and replicas of nails from Jesus' cross.
Also venerated here, since 22 October 2011, are relics of
St. John Paul II.
References
Catholic pilgrimage sites
Catholic devotions
Kłodzko County
Roman Catholic churches in Poland
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