{"id":1744,"date":"2008-06-08T02:16:03","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T06:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/06\/08\/st-adalberts-black-madonna-may-be-oldest\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T02:16:03","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T06:16:03","slug":"st-adalberts-black-madonna-may-be-oldest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2008\/06\/st-adalberts-black-madonna-may-be-oldest\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Adalbert&#8217;s Black Madonna may be oldest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/bmadaonna.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"bmadaonna.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/black.JPG\">click to view full image<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(By Charlie Penasack) St. Adalbert\u2019s painting of Our Lady of Cz\u00eastochowa, commonly referred to as the \u201cBlack Madonna,\u201d may very well be the oldest painting of the Blessed Mother under this title that exists in the Western Hemisphere. According to St. Adalbert\u2019s 50th Anniversary Book, compiled in 1937, this painting was brought to America by the Felician Sisters when they arrived from Poland 75 years earlier. This, however, would place the date of its arrival in the United States at approximately 1861, when in fact the first Felicians to arrive in the United States did so in 1874, settling in Polonia, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The order itself was established on Nov. 21, 1855, when Blessed Mary Angela, who was known as Sophia Truszkowska, and her cousin, Clothilde Ciechanowska, dedicated themselves to God\u2019s service before an icon of Our Lady of Cz\u00eastochowa. In 1882, the Felician sisters transferred their motherhouse from Polonia, WI, to Detroit, MI.<\/p>\n<p>In 1893, the Chicago World\u2019s Fair, also known as the World\u2019s Columbian Exhibition, was held to celebrate Christopher Columbus\u2019 discovery of the New World. To commemorate this event, which has been referred to as \u201cThe Fair That Changed America,\u201d the Felician Sisters and their pupils at St. Albertus Convent in Detroit created this exquisite rendering of the Black Madonna, adding embroidery, gems, and an elaborate frame to the painting, which was sent to Chicago to be displayed.<\/p>\n<p>[<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ampoleagle.com\/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=864&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2519&hn=ampoleagle&he=.com\">read full story at AM-POL Eagle<\/a>\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click to view full image) (By Charlie Penasack) St. Adalbert\u2019s painting of Our Lady of Cz\u00eastochowa, commonly referred to as the \u201cBlack Madonna,\u201d may very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,7,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-alive-churches","category-bf-people","category-b-f-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-s8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}