Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine at Jasna Gora

Let us share with you our own miracle, which was

given to us by Our Lady of Czestochowa.

It took place in early May, 1993. The Lord had blessed us in allowing us to go to

Poland, by invitation of the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Glemp.

We were there to bring back to the United States some of the

spiritual beauty which we had heard existed in Poland.

So, thefour of us, Bob, Penny, Brother Joseph and Luz Elena, set out

to make television programs for EWTN on Poland, and the

Shrines of Poland.

We went to Warsaw, for Jerzy Popieluszko;

to Niepokalanow, and the Shrine of St. Maxmillian Kolbe;

to the various sites of Sister Faustina; to Auschwitz, for the

program on St. Edith Stein; to Wadowice and Kalvaria, to make

a program on His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, a dry Martyr;

and to Czestochowa, to videotape the marvelous tribute to Our

Lady given by the people there.

The office of Cardinal Glemp had graciously provided us

with a Mercedes Benz van and driver, to take us all over the

country.

The driver knew all the roads, and how to get to the

places we wanted to visit. And so, after having finished our

work in the Warsaw area, we set out for Czestochowa.

On the

road, we prayed and shared about our trip, while our driver

Josef, moved in and out of traffic. We didn’t pay much attention

to the road, as there were a great many big rigs, huge trucks,

traveling alongside of us.

However, at a given point, we felt a severe bang from

something outside the van.

The vehicle began to swerve all

over the road, and our skilled driver, had all to do just to keep

us from overturning. Penny cried out, “Mother of God!” Luz

We managed to get to the side of the road.

We got outof the van to see what damage we had incurred.

There was nothing wrong with the body of the van. But the right tire had

been stripped of all its rubber.

However, it had not punctured!

We did not experience a blow out! Bob and Brother Joseph

ran down the road to where the rubber was lying on the road.

They picked it up to look at it. We also found the piece of an

axle from one of the huge trucks which had broken and flown,

striking our van.

It was in the shape of an arc.

It cleaned all the rubber from the tire, but Our Lady protected us by not letting

a blowout occur, because we would have lost complete control

of the vehicle, and very possibly overturned, and who knows

what else?

Our Lady of Czestochowa saved us that day!