A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra (English Translation)

Download or read book A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra (English Translation) written by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, Wladyslaw Reymont, one of Poland's most important writers, went on a walking pilgrimage from the right bank of Warsaw to Jasna Góra, Poland's most important Marian shrine in Czestochowa. He went as a journalist to cover the pilgrimage for the press rather than out of piety. Quickly, however, he was won over by the simple but deep faith of the pilgrims, mostly simple peasants among whom he felt like an outsider. Available in English for the first time, A Pilgrimage to Jasna Góra is a masterpiece of late-nineteenth century journalism filled with astute sociological observations of the Poles and their faith under Russian domination and richly sensuous descriptions of the beauty of the Polish countryside.