Catholic Word of the Day: CZESTOCHOWA, 06-02-10

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[Salvation]

CZESTOCHOWA  Shrine of the Black Madonna, also called Our Lady of Jasna Gora, chief Marian sanctuary of Poland. There is a legend that the picture of Our Lady and her Son at the shrine was painted by St. Luke on a tabletop made by Jesus himself when he was an apprentice carpenter to St. Joseph. Hidden during the early persecutions, it was brought by St. Helena (255-330) to Constantinople. In the troubled eighth century it was stealthily taken from that city to a forest in Eastern Poland. From there it was removed to Częstochowa. In 1430 a great Gothic cathedral was built around the precious relic, but in the war with the Hussites they stole the picture. When their horses refused to move their cargo beyond the village boundaries, they threw the picture by the roadside, where it lay broken. All attempts to repair the damage have failed. In the next three hundred years the Polish people believed that their welfare was identified with this miraculous picture. When the Turks were at the gates of Vienna, Sobieski (1624-96), the Polish king, dedicated his crusade to Mary, and the West was saved. Under Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) the people came secretly on their pilgrimages to Częstochowa, and in 1945, at the end of World War II, they came 500,000 strong to thank Mary for their liberation. In 1947 over 1,500,000 came there to beg Mary to save them from Communism. Public pilgrimages to Częstochowa are forbidden, but the shrine is still unharmed.

	Modern Catholic Dictionary by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

Used with permission

[Salvation]

Five cents to the person who can correctly pronounce this word....LOL!

|This is awesome to view in person. I saw it on my trip to Poland four summers ago.

[Salvation]

That shrine was mobbed. There were over 32 buses that we could count and so many more motor vehicles of every kind.

[Salvation]

I don't know if the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa is still visibile on this thread.

Welcome back, freeper Salvation! (Vanity)

[Salvation]

Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.

 

Mass Salutation	Old Law	Nazarene
Subjectivism	Papal Coronation	Apostle
Subdiaconate	Mala Fide	Spiritual Espousals
Baptistery	Didache (Teaching of the twelve Apostles)	Aglipayanism
Tabernacle	Council of Trullo	Mortuarium
Repairing Scandal	Auriesville	New Law
Perfectae Caritatis	Violence	Tertian
Rule	Corpus Christi	Czestochowa

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[Salvation]

We were not allowed to take any flash pictures, but I found these images on the web. To me, the second one is the most accurate.

 

 

 

[Salvation]

Hmmmm — I’m not seeing the damage that was done (and is clearly visibile) on any of these images.

[Cricket24]

“Chestahova”
That’s the way I was taught to say it by my Polish grandparents who were “legal” immigrants from Poland! They also became citizens.
They are buried at “Our Lady of Czestochowa”, a Catholic shrine near Doylestown, PA. I haven’t been there in a long time but it is a very beautiful and peaceful place.

[MaggieCarta]

Five cents to the person who can correctly pronounce this word....

Your money is safe from me, Salvation... :)

Detroit has (uhhh...used to have) a large Polish community within its borders (Hamtramck) There is also Shrine of the Black Madonna somewhere around here...After reading this, it makes sense. Thanks!

[happyathome]

Chest - oh - hoe - va. Emphasis on the first and third syllables. I had the privilege of visiting the shrine in the Spring of 2005 right after John Paul II passed. Very impressive (I’m not a Catholic but am thinking about becoming one since that trip...).

[Salvation]

You got it

ch is a k or a h

w is a v

WADowice — where Pope John Paul II was born

Vaad o vee chee

[Salvation]

You’ve got it too.

[Salvation]

Did you want on your knees around the back of it and out to the front of it where only one person could be at a time. I couldn’t because I was still using a cane. I would do it today, though!

[Straight Vermonter]

Earlier Catholic Words of the Day

Mass Salutation	Old Law	Nazarene
Subjectivism	Papal Coronation	Apostle
Subdiaconate	Mala Fide	Spiritual Espousal
Baptistery	Didache (teach of the 12 Apostles)	Aglipayanism
Tabernacle	Council of Trullo	Mortuarium
Repairing Scandal	Auriesville	New Law
Perfectae Caritatis	Violence	Tertian
Rule	Corpus Christi	Czestochowa

[Cronos]

Chen sto HOE vah. :)

Of course, it's written as Częstochowa and once you understand that cz in Polish is pronounced as CH, ę is pronounced as en , ch = H (a more breathy H), w pronounced as V, then Polish is a simple language to pronounce. In many ways it is simpler to pronounce than English (this from a native English speaker), since the rules remain true always (in contrast, in English, try pronouncing: bough, cough and tough). The declinations would kill ya though!

[Cronos]

some other examples of Polish spellings are the city of Łódź and the ex-PM Lech Wałęsa which I always pronounced as LOADS and Leck Walesa, whereas the actual polish pronounciations are Woodje and Leh VaWENsa