In the 1980s, Poles, for whom it was difficult to remain in contact with Vilnius, and who for historical reasons have left their beloved land, approached bishop Edward Materski with a request to allow the prayer before Our Lady of Ostra Brama, whose Vilnius image they remembered from childhood years. As at that time there were plans to construct a new Church in Skarżysko-Kamienna, the Ordinary of the Diocese of Radom fulfilled the request of the Poles yearning for the Mother of Mercy and decided to create the Sanctuary in this place.