The pilgrim Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa is still in Portugal waiting to travel to the USA. In the meantime, the Orthodox Church of Russia in Portugal has requested to have Our Lady of Czestochowa visiting some of their communities. This was providential and shows that the Virgin Mary wants to be with all of us!
The Orthodox priest, Father Ioan Gherbovetchi, who had already welcomed the Icon in the South of Portugal, organized also a visit to other parishes in Setúbal, Sines and Cascais, from the 18th to the 21st April. Our Lady was welcomed and venerated with beautiful liturgies and prayers were offered also for the defense of Life.
On Thursday, April 25 2013 at 10 am. in Sala Rycerska (The knights` hall) at Jasna Góra a photo-exhibition “From Ocean to Ocean – the first stage of the peregrination of the copy of the Icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa across the world in defence of life” was opened.
On the Sanctity of Life Day, celebrated this year on April 8, there was a historic moment when peregrinating Czestochowa icon from Vladivostok to Fatima stood on the shore of the Atlantic ocean in Nazaré Portugal.
The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa that arrived in Algarve on March 25th, travelled back to Fatima on April 1, after having visited the Discalced Carmelite Sisters in Patacão, the Hospital of Faro, the Carmel Church and the Refuge Aboim Ascensão, in Faro. Also very important was the visit of Our Lady to the Orthodox community in Faro. A great number of people participated in these celebrations.
- Our Lady of Czestochowa on pilgrimage to Algarve, South of Portugal
- Pray for life in Walsingham on Monday, 8th April
- World Youth Day celebrated with Our Lady of Czestochowa
- Virgin of Czestochowa at The National Shrine of Christ The King
- Our Lady was received in the association “Ajuda De Berço”
- Peregrination “From Ocean to Ocean” reached Odivelas, Lisbon
- Our Lady of Czestochowa in the north of Portugal
- The Black Madonna visits catholic School of Saint Michel
- Consolata Missionaries welcomed the Icon of Czestochowa
- Rosary for Life in the Little Chapel of the Apparitions in Fatima


