Edited by ARR S.A. | Silesia
Legend of the chapel in Goczałkowice resort
Country: Poland
Region: Silesia
Type of inspiration: Legends
Inspiracja
The year was 1856, and some unknown people came to Goczałkowice-Zdrój. They started to measure something, to look for something, they started to drill deep boreholes. The reason for this was that they had calculated that there were deposits of salt beneath the deposits of the spa ground. However, to their surprise, instead of salt, a fountain of brine gushed out of the boreholes. Plans to build a salt mine collapsed and it was decided to build a spa in its place.
When the spa began its first cure season in 1862, a teenage boy - the son of a wealthy factory owner - was among the treating patients. He had been suffering from a leg disability for several years, which he tried to treat at Europe's most famous resorts. Nothing, however, helped. In Goczałkowice, however, an extraordinary thing happened. The boy started to walk on his own, without the help of a wheelchair or crutches.
Mad with joy, his father had a chapel built in the vicinity of the saline spring. He also had a special picture painted of the recovery of the sick. This painting can still be found in the chapel of Our Lady of the Healing of the Sick.
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