Dąbrówka Kościelna, Greater Poland Voivodeship

[1] It is surrounded by forest areas, and lies in the eastern part of Puszcza Zielonka Landscape Park.

The present picture is actually the fourth copy of the original, which was destroyed when the then church burnt down as a result of lightning strike in 1774.

This was removed from the church by the parish priest in 1939 in an attempt to save it from the invading German forces at the start of World War II, but it was lost during fighting near Kutno, when the house in which it was being stored was destroyed.

A further copy (based on surviving prints) was made in 1949 (by Edmund Szyfter), but it was felt to be of poor artistic quality and was demoted to use in processions.

In 2014, then U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel visited the Church of the Assumption, where his great grandparents, Tomasz Kakolewski and Katarzyna Budnikowska, were married in 1882.