BASILICA OF OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION

SVATÝ HOSTÝN

CZECH REPUBLIC

A beautiful Marian pilgrimage place on the top of the hill with far reaching vistas. A place where you can recover spiritual and physical strengths. Virgin Mary is celebrated here as a protector of her people against the Tartar invasion.

“Assumption is a call to look upwards and see that heaven is open.”

- Pope Francis

I have the most beautiful memories of this place, probably because I was here twice, always with my most loved ones. The first time with my wife when we celebrated 10 years of our marriage, the second time a year later with the whole family and our niece and nephew. We used both visits to hike around in the beautiful nature, the second time we even slept in the pilgrim hostel. The views were moving and the opportunity to pray, attend mass and go for confession to one of the local Jesuit fathers completed the experience.

LINKS

Parish website (Czech): https://www.hostyn.cz/

Wikipedia (Czech): https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%C3%BDn

Wikipedia (English): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%C3%BDn

VISITS

June 14, 2015

October 28, 2016