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The icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for the past 600 years.
So St. Luke painted it on the top of a cypress wood table, which came from the home of the Holy Family. When Mary saw it, she was so pleased that she wished her blessing to accompany it wherever it went.
The first victim of the Soviet Union’s international socialist crusade was Catholic Poland. By the spring of 1920 Poland was under attack from the Soviet Red Army.
At the national Marian shrine of Czestochowa candles were lit and desperate prayers intoned beside the icon of the Black Madonna. The intercession of Our Lady of Czestochowa was never more needed.
On May 20, 1920, the newly created Red Army crashed through the Polish frontier with one intention: to destroy all before it.
Bolshevik leaders meeting in Moscow for the Second Congress of the Communist International had already begun to prepare plans for a Communist-inspired world revolution starting with the nations of Central and Western Europe. Lenin had ordered that Warsaw be taken without delay.
