It dates to 1772 and is permanently enshrined within the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Licheń, in central Poland, which was built to honor it, and receives about 1.5 million pilgrims per year.

In the central image, the Virgin Mary has a gold panel dress created in 2017 for its 50th year thanksgiving anniversary of Pontifical coronation.

According to legend, a Polish soldier, Thomas Kłossowski was wounded in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 and had a vision of the Virgin Mary who saved him from death and instructed him to look for the image upon his return to Poland.

According to oral tradition, in 1850 Kłossowski and shepherd Nicholas Sikatka witnessed several apparitions of the Virgin Mary who called for repentance and prayer.

The Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski executed the rite of Canonical Coronation towards the image with the 1965 decree of Pope Paul VI on 15 August 1967.