[1] According to legend, the complex lies on the site where a villager had a vision of Mary.

[2] The villager, Tomasz Michałek, was collecting wood in the forest when Mary appeared in a bright light and instructed him to erect a church on the site.

[3] Łukasz Opaliński and Bishop Maciej Pstrokoński brought monks to the site in 1608 to establish the monastery.

[2][4] King Sigismund III also provided assistance with the foundation.

[3] The Basilica of the Assumption was then built between 1618 and 1628 to the designs of Antonio Pallacini.