Our Lady of Brezje

The Chapel of Our Lady of Brezje is located on the crypt level of the Basilica and is on the left side as you face the crypt church. It is located immediately off of the Memorial Hall.

The following text can be found on the kneeler in the front of this chapel.

This chapel is a link between Brezje, spiritually located in the Nations capital, and the town of Brezje, located in a beautiful valley near the charming village of Bled which snuggles beneath the Slovenian Alps. Brezje is the best known and most frequented shrine to Our Lady in Slovenia which is located in the northwest section of present day Yugoslavia. The shrine at Brezje is dedicated to Our Lady Help of Christians, and is popularly known as Marija Pomagaj (Mary, help me) of Brezje. The heart of the shrine at Brezje is the picture of Our Lady. The present miraculous picture came into being when a Slovenian artist by the name of Leopold Lazer, who was languishing in prison in 1809, during the French occupation, promised to paint a new picture of Marija Pomagaj if he would regain his freedom. Soon after this vow, he was release from jail and he painted in oil a new image of Our Lady which is now the object of intense Marian devotion by Slovenes in Slovenia and in other parts of the world.

The alter was consecrated on August 14, and the Chapel was dedicated on August 15, 1971.

Mary, Help of Christians

You show us how to be Christian, how to "hear the Word of God and keep it" (Luke 11:28)
~ Help us to respond to God as you did,
that His power work in us,
the Spirit form Christ in us,
and that His mind, His heart, His will
be ours.
We ask this through Christ, Our Lord.
Amen.

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