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| Not so often reproduced photo of Janusz Korczak (6 from the left) that attends a meeting of the linguistic club in Czestochowa in August 1938. |
City of Czestochowa is located 205 km southwest of Warsaw.
The Jasna Góra Monastery (from 1382) in Częstochowa, Poland, is a shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary and one of the country's places of Catholic pilgrimage. The image of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, also known as Our Lady of Częstochowa, to which miraculous powers are attributed, is one of Jasna Góra's most precious treasures.
Upon arriving at the place of the shrine at which one would pass in front of the icon of Our Lady (see below), it is expected and a sign of respect for pilgrims to drop to their knees, and traverse the anterior of the shrine on their knees.
