id=”intertext_1″> As reported press office of Jasna Gora, Czestochowa shrine with altar goes first to the cathedral in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, and then to the National Shrine of the Queen of Peace in Oziornoje, where it will be placed in the chapel of adoration.
id=”intertext_1″> symbolic altar is to be an encouragement to pray for peace and to respond to the repeated calls of Pope John Paul II to pray for this intention. The delegation of the gift was inscribed on Friday celebration of Our Lady Queen of Polish Jasna Gora.
id=”intertext_1″> Create an altar to the Kazakh sanctuary is part of an international project carried out by the existing five years of Polish society “communit Regina della Pace” (Community of Peace). On his initiative, in different places of the world is expected to create 12 centers of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament for peace – like twelve stars in the crown of Mary Queen of Peace.
id=”intertext_1″> first two centers in Jerusalem and Medjugorje, the third will be in the Kazakh Oziornoje, and another at the Marian shrine of Kibeho in Rwanda.
id=”intertext_1″> On Friday, representatives of the Polish episcopate, led by its chairman, Archbishop. Jozef Michalik, symbolically handed over the altar of the clergy of Kazakhstan. He took it include Metropolitan of Astana Archbishop Tomasz Peta and the accompanying missionaries and nuns.
id=”intertext_1″> The ceremony was attended by the Ambassador of Kazakhstan to Poland Utembajew Erik, who thanked for this gift. – Accept it in the belief that the nations of Polish and Kazakh are very close spiritually and culturally – he said. Altar recognized as a good symbol of Polish-Kazakh community and cooperation. He thanked for the many proofs of friendship, produced by Poles Kazakhs.
id=”intertext_1″> made such of gold, amber and precious stones five-altar is the work of the famous goldsmith and amber Gdansk Mariusz Drapikowski. In its plan of work, inspired by the “Roman Triptych” by John Paul II, is the artistic reflection on God’s mercy. It has a great shape (wide at about 7.5 m high at about 2 m), the tabernacle with the monstrance. It contains relics. Blessed Faustina Kowalska. Pope John Paul II.
id=”intertext_1″> since the summer of last year, the altar was presented in Polish cathedrals and shrines, where he continued adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and pray for peace. “Star of Kazakhstan” was such Warsaw, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Krakow, Poznan, Bydgoszcz, Katowice, Wa?brzych, Gniezno, Krzeszow and nica. The Jasna Gora is still available for May 7.
id=”intertext_1″> The population of around 17 million inhabitants Kazakhstan, whose area is about nine times larger than the Polish Catholics is only 1 percent. population. Approximately 70 per cent. population are followers of Islam, and around 25 percent. Orthodoxy.
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