Volunteers at Gietrzwald

Sorry to those that have been waiting on this. We have been really busy. All is going well and today is the volunteer teams last day in Olsztyn. They will leave tomorrow morning for Warsaw and then down to south Poland for a couple of days.

On the first day we visited Gietrzwald which is a small community about 20 minutes away from Olsztyn. In the town there is a shrine to Mary and is also a validated (I don't know if that is the right word.?) location by the Vatican where a sighting of Mary happened (I think it is the only one in Poland, but don't quote me on it!). If you want to find out more about it you can visit the website- www.gietrzwald.3c.pl


Here is the church/shrine and some of the grounds that it includes.


This picture is the focus of the church. It shows Mary holding Jesus as a baby.


The volunteer team walked along paths and prayed all the way around the grounds.


One more of most of the group.