Pope Francis expressed good wishes to the pilgrims of Our Lady of Czestochowa, famous icon of the Black Polish Madonna, converging on the national shrine of Jasna Gora.
“May this pilgrimage, organized with prudence because of the pandemic, be for all a time of reflection, prayer and fraternity in faith and in love,” he said at the General Audience on August 12, 2020.
The Pontiff also recalled the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw (August 1920) – “Miracle of the Vistula” (Cud nad Wisla) –, the Polish army’s victory over the Russian Bolshevik army on August 15. The people attributed this miracle “to Mary’s intervention,” he said.