Mary Help Basilica (Filipov)
The Basilica Maria, Hilfe der Christisten is a Roman Catholic church in the Filipov district of Jiříkov , Czech Republic . The Sanctuary of the Diocese of Litomerice is under the invocation of Christians Mary Help of Mary Mother of God ordained and carries the title of a Minor Basilica . It was built on the occasion of the apparition of Mary in 1866 in what was then Philippsdorf and is located directly on the border with Germany.
Marian apparition
The seriously ill Magdalena Kade (1835–1905) appeared to the Virgin Mary during prayer on January 13, 1866 and promised her healing. The previously incurable Magdalena was completely healthy the next day. A pilgrimage developed into their “sanctuary”. For this purpose, a chapel of grace was built on the site of her apartment from 1870 to 1873. The pilgrimage church was then built and consecrated according to plans from 1870 until 1885. Magdalena Kade died at the age of 70 and her bones were finally transferred to the basilica in 1994 after being reburied.
On the 60th anniversary of the apparition of Mary by Pope Pius XI. recognized and raised the church to a minor basilica. As papal nuncio Ambrogio Ratti he visited Philippsdorf in 1920. At the end of the 1930s, the basilica was one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Central Europe.
The expelled Sudeten Germans continued the tradition with a fair for the 100th anniversary in Gladenbach , Hessen . There has been another pilgrimage since 1990.
Church building
According to plans by the architect F. Hutzler from Vienna, a monumental single-nave , neo-Romanesque church Maria, Hilfe der Christians with a two-tower facade was built. The choir is closed with a semicircular apse. The church was decorated with numerous votive offerings from the faithful. The interior is modern. Under the altar, at the point where the Virgin Mary appeared, a piece of wooden floor from the Kade house can be seen under glass. On the altar there is a 90 cm high statue of the Virgin Mary made of Carrara marble. In the second sacristy is the bed on which Magdalena Kade suffered. The Redemptorists , who had been there since 1884, built a monastery until 1915. In 1908, Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen installed an organ with 22 registers with two manuals and a pedal , which was restored in 2009. After the Sudeten Germans were expelled in 1946/47, the prior of the Redemptorist monastery, Father Šimanovský, was arrested in 1948 and the church was closed. The basilica and monastery were exposed to decay because of the border location and could only be preserved through private donations. In 1985 the Archbishop of Prague, František Tomášek , consecrated the Madonna with a silver crown with six Bohemian garnet stones .
In 1883 the statue of the Virgin Mary was placed in the niche 20 meters above the main portal of the basilica. It is a 2.80 meter tall statue made of Pirna sandstone by Anton and Adolf Schwarz . The statue was restored in 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bazilika Panny Marie Pomocnice křesťanů on gcatholic.org
- ↑ "My child, it heals from now on!" - The place of pilgrimage Philippsdorf is the North Bohemian Lourdes on Church in Need
- ↑ A miracle, its church and the consequences in the Sächsische Zeitung
- ↑ Information about the instrument
- ↑ Sächsische Zeitung of November 24, 2015, p. 16 / LOE Löbau Lokales, Link = http://www.genios.de/presse-archiv/artikel/SZO/20151124/marienstatue-an-der-basilika-in-phi /25588534.html
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '50.2 " N , 14 ° 35' 52.1" E