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Brezje

After 1863 the original church of St Vitus at Brezje, because of the picture of the miraculous Mary in the added chapel, became the most visited pilgrimage centre in Slovenia. For before the image of the crowned Mary with Jesus in her lap, miraculous answers to prayer occurred.

 

Since the church of that time became too small for the ever growing number of pilgrims who came before Mary with their requests, in 1889 they began building today's Neo-Renaissance church of Mary Help of Christians.

 

In October 1988 Pope John Paul II elevated this shrine to a basilica with special honorary rights.

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