JOHN PAUL II CZESTOCHOWA ROSARY black iridescent crystals made in Poland 18"

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Saint John Paul II was Pope from 1978 to 2005. He is called by some Catholics Saint John Paul the Great.
Karol J. Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice, a small city 50 kilometres from Cracow, on May 18, 1920.
In 1942, aware of his call to the priesthood, he began courses in the clandestine seminary of Cracow, run by Cardinal Adam Stefan Sapieha, archbishop of Cracow.
Soon after, Cardinal Sapieha sent him to Rome where he worked under the guidance of the French Dominican, Garrigou-Lagrange. He finished his doctorate in theology in 1948 with a thesis on the topic of faith in the works of St. John of the Cross.
In 1948 he returned to Poland and was vicar of various parishes in Cracow as well as chaplain for the university students until 1951, when he took up again his studies on philosophy and theology.
On July 4, 1958, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow by Pope Pius XII, and was consecrated September 28, 1958, in Wawel Cathedral, Cracow, by Archbishop Baziak.
prayers that essentially compose the Rosary are arranged in sets of ten
Hail Marys
with each set preceded by one
Lord's Prayer
and followed by one
Glory Be
. During recitation of each set, known as a decade, thought is given to one of the
Mysteries of the Rosary
, which recall events in the lives of
Jesus
and
Mary
. Normally, five decades are recited in a session. Other prayers are sometimes added after each decade (in particular, the
Fátima Prayer
) and before (in particular, the
Apostles' Creed
), and after (in particular, the
Hail, Holy Queen
) the five decades taken as a whole. The rosary as a material object is an aid towards saying these prayers in the proper sequence.
The
Black Madonna of
Częstochowa
(Polish: Czarna Madonna or Matka Boska Częstochowska,
Our Lady of Częstochowa)
, is a revered icon of
the Virgin Mary
housed at
the
Jasna Góra Monastery in
Częstochowa
, Poland, the third-largest
Catholic
pilgrimage site in the world.
The icon of
Our Lady
of Częstochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for the past 600 years.
The Black Madonna is said to have miraculously saved the monastery of Jasna Góra from a Swedish invasion. The Siege of Jasna Góra took place in the winter of 1655.The Swedes were attempting to capture Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa. Seventy monks and 180 local volunteers, mostly from the szlachta (Polish nobility), held off 4,000 Swedes for 40 days, saved their sacred icon and, according to some accounts, turned the course of the war.
This event led the Polish King
"crown" Our Lady of Częstochowa
as
Queen And Protector of Poland
in the cathedral of Lwow
on April 1, 1662.
The legend concerning
the two scars
on the Black Madonna's right cheek is that the Hussites
stormed the Pauline monastery in 1430, plundering the sanctuary. Among the items stolen was the icon. After putting it in their wagon, the Hussites tried to get away but their horses refused to move. They threw the portrait down to the ground and one of the plunderers drew his sword upon the image and inflicted two deep strikes. When the robber tried to inflict a third strike, he fell to the ground and writhed in agony until his death. Despite past attempts to repair these scars, they had difficulty in covering up those slashes as the painting was done with tempera infused with diluted wax
Assembled in Poland