Sarvanytsia (Terebovlya)
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| Зарваниця | |||
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| Oblast : | Ternopil Oblast | ||
| Rajon : | Terebowlya district | ||
| Height : | 328 m | ||
| Area : | 2.26 km² | ||
| Residents : | 342 (2001) | ||
| Population density : | 151 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Postcodes : | 48143 | ||
| Area code : | +380 3551 | ||
| Geographic location : | 49 ° 13 ' N , 25 ° 22' E | ||
| KOATUU : | 6125083101 | ||
| Administrative structure : | 1 village | ||
| Address: | 48143 с. Зарваниця | ||
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Sarwanyzja ( Ukrainian Зарваниця ; Russian Зарваница Sarwaniza , Polish Zarwanica ) is a place of pilgrimage in the western Ukrainian Ternopil Oblast . Until 2015, the district of the same name also included the village of Sapowa ( Сапова ) further south ; since July 28, 2015, the village has been part of the rural municipality of Solotnyky .
The site and its 300 inhabitants, which have made it famous beyond the borders of Ukraine , are thanks to the icon of the Mother of God Mary . Every year about a million pilgrims visit the miraculous image . The place of pilgrimage is looked after by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGKK) and is located in the area of the Ternopil-Sboriw Archeparchy .
Legend
The history of the place and the icon goes back to the 13th century . The legend tells that in 1240 a monk from Kiev , which is on the run from the Mongols was to a source refreshed. During this stay he prayed to the Mother of God Mary and fell asleep for a short time. Maria appeared to him in a dream. When he woke up he found the icon at his resting place, he promised to build a chapel at this spring and to keep the icon in it.
The new news about miraculous events at the spring, which was said to have a healing effect, spread quickly and reached Duke Terebowlia Wassylko Romanowitsch , the brother of the ruling Prince Daniel Romanowitsch of Galicia . Vasylko demanded that the icon of Mary should be delivered to him, the monk refused to hand it over, which is why the duke set out - he is thus symbolically the first pilgrim - to visit the chapel in Sarwanyzja, which has now been built.
Place of pilgrimage
The first written records of the construction of a church date from 1458. The place that was created all around was in the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania in the Ruthenian Voivodeship until 1772 . From 1662 to 1688, Sarvanyzja was sacked by the Turks and partly burned down. The icon of St. However, Mary was saved and kept in a newly built church. In 1740 another icon depicting the crucified Jesus was kept in the church of Sarwanyzja and consecrated in 1742 by the Metropolitan Athanasius Scheptyzkyj .
The first stone church was built in 1754 and dedicated to the Holy Trinity . In it, a stone cross marks the place of the previous wooden church. Pope Pius IX (1846–1878) declared Sarwanyzja a holy place of pilgrimage in 1867 . During the First World War , the village was badly damaged in 1916. The reconstruction was completed in 1922, as a result of the reconstruction the heads of the UGKK regularly visited the place of pilgrimage and prayed at the shrine that had meanwhile been built . The major archbishops Andrej Scheptyzkyj and Jossyf Slipyj were among the most important .
Underground Church
Another destruction took place during the occupation of the Soviet rulers . The monastery built by the Studite Order , directly at the source, was burned to the ground. The Dreifaltigkeitskirche was used as a warehouse . The water source was fenced in and partially used as a garbage dump . All religious activities were stopped, prohibited and hindered by the Soviet militia in 1946 , and an underground church was established in Ukraine . The miraculous image of Mary and the icons were safely hidden in catacombs , here the Eucharist was celebrated by the so-called underground church of Ukraine . Secret meetings were held in the woods near the village of Sarwanyzja, a secret seminary was established and bishops of the UGCC were consecrated . Most of the twenty-five blessed of the Greek Catholic Church of the Ukrainians emerged from this period , some of them lived in the vicinity of Ternopil and Sarwanyzja.
reconstruction
The first public Holy Mass in Sarwanyzja was celebrated on July 17, 1988 by Bishop Pavlo Vasylyk together with over 10,000 people . After the reopening of the Trinity Church, the faithful celebrated their first service in the main church on November 23, 1989. In 1991, the repairs in the main church were completed, the spring could be reactivated and cleaned. The highlight so far after the reconstruction was the visit of Pope John Paul II in 2001. Since 2009 the Ukrainian military ordinariate has been organizing an international military pilgrimage to Sarvanyzja.
Today's "Marienzentrum Sarwanyzja" is a church complex and consists of the Trinity Church (1754), the Church of Our Lady of Sarwanyzja, the Annunciation Church and the chapel at the healing spring.
Web links
- United pilgrimage to Sarvanytsia (a summary)
- Information sheet of the Blue Oasis of Prayer (Image of the Grace of Sarwanyzja)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Відповідно до Закону України "Про добровільне об'єднання територіальних громад" у Тернопільській області у Теребовлянському районі
- ↑ City catalog [1]
- ↑ PRAYER OF JOHN PAUL II IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE OF THE "MOTHER OF GOD OF ZARVANIZA" (Saturday, June 23, 2001) [2]
- ↑ All-Ukrainian military pilgrimage [3]