Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Romanesque Revival church in Mutná, Czech Republic
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, known as Montserrat, stands on a wooded hill near Mutná south of Cizkrajov. The 1858–1865 church, built to a design by Michael Angelo Picchioni, has a Neo-Romanesque exterior and a main altar holding a polychrome lime-wood statue of the Montserrat Virgin Mary.
Knight Bartoloměj Tannzoll-Zill had a chapel built here in 1651 after making a pilgrimage to Montserrat in thanks for recovery from wounds suffered in the Thirty Years' War. Enlarged in 1660 and rebuilt as a church in 1712, it was demolished in 1785 on the order of Joseph II. The present church was built in 1858–1865 to a design by Michael Angelo Picchioni, owner of Český Rudolec castle.
The church is named after the Catalan pilgrimage site of Montserrat, and its main altar holds a polychrome lime-wood statue of the Montserrat Virgin Mary brought from the Cizkrajov parish church. Pilgrimage Masses were once held here up to a hundred times a year, mainly for German-speaking residents; their number fell sharply after the Germans were expelled from the borderlands.
The church stands on a wooded hill by Mutná, south of Cizkrajov near Slavonice, and is open only during Masses and pilgrimages. The main pilgrimage season runs from May to October, with Mass always on the third Saturday of the month. Outside those times the building stays closed, though the hill is also a walking destination.
The church is named after Montserrat in Catalonia, and its main altar holds a lime-wood statue of the Montserrat Virgin Mary brought from the Cizkrajov parish church. Pilgrimage Masses were once held here up to a hundred times a year.
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