The Jasna Góra monastery - pilgrimage tourism centre in Poland (1975 - 1998)

For hundreds of years The Jasna Góra Monastery has been the most important pilgrimage centre in Poland. Its origins date back to 1382, when Prince Vladislaus of Opole brought and placed Pauline monks from Hungary at the former parish church of the Blessed Virgin Mary [8]. The presentation of pilgrimage movement to the shrine of The Jasna Góra Monastery in the years 1975 - 1998 is the main aim of the paper. Both the participation of domestic and foreign pilgrimages in pilgrim's traffic that visited the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Jasna Góra Monastery in the period has been discussed.