Icon of the Mother of God "Czestochowa"   Commemorated on March
6  The wonderworking Czestochowa Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos
is to be found in a Roman Catholic monastery at Yasna Gora near
the city of Czestochowa, Petrov Province, in present-day Poland.
It is believed to be one of the seventy icons written by the
holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke. Tradition says that the icon
was taken from Jerusalem when the Romans conquered the city in
66 AD, and was hidden in a cave near Pella. The icon was given
to St. Helen when she visited the Holy Land in 326, and she
brought it back to Constantinople with her.  In the eighth
century, the icon traveled to various places, including Galicia,
Bavaria, and Moravia. The founder of the city of Lvov, Prince
Leo, brought the icon to Russia and placed it in the Belz
Fortress. Many miracles took place before the holy icon.  Prince
Vladislav of Opolsk acquired the icon when the Poles captured
southwestern Russia. At the time that Vladislav ruled Poland,
the Tatars invaded Russ