Polish shrine eyes record-setting year

Pilgrim sites across Europe are surging past pre-COVID levels, reporting unprecedented numbers of visitors

Poland’s most popular shrine could receive a record number of pilgrims in 2024, according to local media.

The icon of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, at Poland’s Jasna Góra Monastery. © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

The shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa, at Jasna Góra Monastery in southern Poland, received as many as 4.5 million pilgrims a year before the …