Late in the evening of October 30, Our Lady in the Icon of Czestochowa arrived in the eighth district of Berlin called Neukölln, where she stopped at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, the largest Catholic church in Berlin. The basilica functions as the "cathedra," or Episcopal seat, of the Military Ordinariate of Germany, which is immediately subject to the Holy See and provides pastoral care to Roman Catholics serving in the German Armed Forces and their families. Since the year 2004, it is also the Seat of the Polish Catholic Mission in Germany.
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Our Blessed Mother arrived at the capital of Germany – Berlin – in the evening, on October 30, and stopped in the very center of the city, at the Archbishop's Cathedral of St. Hedwig. It is interesting to note here that this church was consecrated in the year 1747 by the Archbishop of Gniezno (Poland), the Most Reverend Ignatius Krasicki - known for his great poetry.
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Our Lady managed to arrive in Dresden only late in the evening on the 29th of October, and with more than an hour's delay. The Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa stood in the chapel of the Missionary Sisters of St. Peter Claver - a great mentor and apostle of Black slaves in America. Despite a very late evening hour for a visit at the convent, the Sisters were very hospitable.
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On the sixth day of the pilgrimage through Germany, Monday - October 29, the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa made a sojourn in the Holy Trinity Church in Leipzig. The service was conducted and blessings given by Reverend Lothar Vierhock – the pastor of the parish. Since the visit in Leipzig took place on a Monday, the coordinators of the pilgrimage decided to recall the traditional Monday marches that took place in the 80s in favor of freedom and democracy.
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On Monday, October 29, the Icon of Czestochowa arrived in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia, at the parish of St. Ursula on the Gera River. Our Blessed Mother was welcomed in the Erfurt Ursuline convent. In the year 1535, St. Angela Merici founded the Association of St. Ursula in Italy, whose main focus was the education of young women.
- At the Polish Mission in Kassel
- Life Mobile" accident in Fulda, Germany
- With a brass band through Würzburg
- The Black Madonna at the Shrine of the Black Madonna, the Queen of Bavaria in Altotting
- With prayer at an abortion clinic in Munich
- Our Lady of Czestochowa at the Polish Mission in Munich
- First visit on German soil
- Our Blessed Mother is visiting Germany
- Cathedral St. Gallen – the last stop in the Swiss Confederation
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