The sanctuary of the Assumption of Cacica (Bucovina)
In Cacica, next to the salt mine of the Bucovina, the Polish community raised the neo-Gothic church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary between 1903 and 1904. Declared diocesan sanctuary in 1996 and national in 1997, he received from John Paul II the title of minor basilica in 2000.
🌹 Wonders and anecdotes
- His altar preserves a replica of the Black Virgin of Częstochowa, painted in the early 17th century and taken to Cacica in 1809: the devotional heart of the sanctuary.
- Every 14 and 15 August, since 1905, the pilgrimage of the Assumption brings together faithful from Romania, Poland, Germany, Hungary and other countries, with more than 100 priests.
- The temple was born for the Polish Catholic miners who came to work in the salt mine (1791), which keeps the underground chapel of Santa Barbara 20 meters deep.
- After the church is opened a Grotto of Lourdes built in 1908, with a stone altar and a well whose water the pilgrims venerate.
Asunción de Cacica
Cacica is the great Marian sanctuary of the Bucovina: salt, stone and faith of an immigrant people who put their work under the cloak of the Virgin. The Assumption brings together half a Catholic Europe every August.
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