Church of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary and Franciscan Monastery in Máriaradna
Mănăstirea Romano-Catolică Sf. Maria Radna
Church of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary and Franciscan Monastery in Máriaradna
Mănăstirea Romano-Catolică Sf. Maria Radna
Original function:
church and monastery
Historical Hungarian county:
Temes
GPS coordinates:
46.0990044071, 21.6861447842
History
At the time of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, it was the most prestigious pilgrimage site, next to Mariazell. The majority of the Catholic faithful are Hungarians. The Franciscan monks were settled in Lippa by King Charles I of Hungary in 1325. He founded a monastery for them and had a church built in honour of his uncle, St Louis of Toulouse. In 1440, Radna is mentioned for the first time in the sources. In 1520, a widow had a chapel built on the hill of Radna. In 1668, the Franciscan monks donated to the chapel of Radna a holy image printed on paper from the Remondini printing press in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza, Italy). This is the miraculous image, still venerated today. In 1695, Turkish soldiers set fire to the chapel, miraculously the image printed on paper was found intact in the charred ruins. According to another legend, a Turkish soldier tried to enter the church on horse, but his horse stumbled over a stone, and the hoofprint of his horse can still be seen on the church wall. After the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699, the Maros became a border river, the area to the north with Radna became part of Hungary again, while Lippa on the south bank remained under Turkish occupation. Bánság was returned to Hungary in the 1718 Peace of Passarowitz. In 1709, after the plague had passed, the first votive pilgrimage of the town of Arad to Máriaradna was organised. In 1722, misterious rays of light appeared around the church by night. In 1727, the construction of the present monastery building with its western wing began. Between 1743 and 1747 the south wing was built. In 1750, the monastery and shrine of Máriaradna were declared a place of pilgrimage. The foundation stone of the present church was laid on 7 July 1756. On 9 July 1767, on the Sunday of Pentecost, Bishop Franz Anton Leopold von Engl zu Wagrain personally transferred the image from the old chapel to the new church, which was visited by 12,000 pilgrims. In 1768 it was visited by Empress Maria Theresa's son Joseph II. Between 1769 and 1770, the rococo frame of the image was made by the Viennese jeweller Josef Moser, on the orders of Maria Theresa, using 30 kg of silver. In 1820, Cardinal Rudnay Sándor, Archbishop of Esztergom (formerly Bishop of Transylvania), solemnly consecrated the church and donated two golden crowns (the crown of the Virgin and the crown of the baby Jesus). According to the Archbishop's will, his heart is also kept here. At Pentecost 1832, 25,000 pilgrims arrived, including Vlach Orthodox worshippers. In 1895, on the 200th anniversary of the first miracle, a new altar in Carrara marble was built. In 1905, an organ from the workshop of Wegenstein Lipót in Temesvár was installed. In 1911, both towers were raised by 30 metres to 67 metres. In 1917, the organ pipes and the church bells were confiscated for war purposes. After the Romanian invasion, thanks to the work of Bishop Dr. Pacha Ágoston, many pilgrims continued to visit the shrine. In 1935, for example, 73,000 pilgrims visited the site under the bishop's leadership, the largest pilgrimage in its history. In 1951, after the dissolution of the monastic orders, the communists exiled all the Franciscan monks in Romania to Máriaradna. For nine months it was designated as a forced residence for about a hundred Franciscans and a hundred and fifty nuns. The authorities tried to starve them into leaving the order, but the people of the villages secretly supplied them. They were then scattered to different parts of the country. In 1964, the first trip of Honorary Archbishop Dr. Boros Béla, released after 13 years in prison, was to Máriaradna. In 1971 the shrine was renovated with donations from pilgrims who came despite the communist crackdown. After that, there were attempts to make the pilgrimage impossible, for example, on the day of the shrine's feast of St. Anne, the workers were not given any holidays. After 1989 the Franciscans gradually took it back. In 1992, Pope John Paul II declared the church a basilica minor. On that occasion, Honorary Archbishop Dr. Boros Béla donated a new altar to the church. In 2003, the Franciscan monks left the monastery due to lack of replacement. Since then, the church has been maintained by the Diocese of Temesvár. The 2.4 m high statue of Pope John Paul II was erected on the occasion of his beatification.
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