Aug. 26 Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time, Weekday
Some areas celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa. According to tradition, the icon of Jasna Góra was painted by Luke the Evangelist on a tabletop built by Jesus himself, and the icon was discovered by St. Helen, mother of Emperor Constantine and collector of Christian relics in the Holy Land. The icon was then enshrined in the imperial city of Constantinople, according to the legend, where it remained for the next 500 years. The image then was brought to Poland in the 14th century, where it is still enshrined in Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland.