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Gidle - Monastery complex of the Dominicans


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The early-Baroque church houses the smallest object of worship - a stone figure of Mother of God of Gidle.

The monastery was erected between 1640-55. The early-Baroque church houses the smallest object of worship - a stone figure of Mother of God of Gidle. According to a legend found by a peasant and rashly hidden in a chest, the figure brought about the blindness of his family. Only after offering the figure to the nearby church, did the family recover their sight. The monastery has a library with several thousands volumes and a small museum exhibiting two historic oak tables specially made on the occasion of Jan Sobieski’s visit who was marching with the relief of Vienna.

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Dominikański place 6
97-540 Gidle
Provinsen: ŁÓDZKIE
Lengde- og breddegrad: 50.962667,19.470722