Resurrection Miracles of Our Lady of Czestochowa




On February 8 of 1720 a priest by the name of Michael
Pruszynski, Canon of Kijow, pastor of Toporow, in the deanery
of Bielski and the diocese of Luch, departed this world.

Remarkable occurrences followed. Later that year (on June 14,
1720), very much alive, he made a deposition under oath
before witnesses as to what had happened four months
earlier.

The priest told how he owed his vocation to Mary, how he
had grown ill in recent years, had become paralyzed, deaf and
blind, and was like a living corpse. Knowing his demise was
near, he made his last will. As he was informed later by the
three priest witnesses, he died later that day, February 8,
1720.

They placed him in the prepared casket, dressed simply in
his white priestly alb. He was carried in the closed coffin to a
cold dark room where normally he should have frozen
completely. (Poland in February!) Father Michael said that
while he lay within his coffin, the venerable patriarch of the
Pauline Fathers, St. Paul, appeared to him, took him by the
right hand, and said, "Arise, and go pay your respects to the
Madonna of Czestochowa, because it is by her grace and
intercession that you are rising from the dead."

As St. Paul disappeared with the words, "Jesus and Mary of 
Czestochowa," Father Michael, from within the coffin, began
to call for help. Turmoil ensued; some fled, while others pulled
at the boards sealing the casket. When he was released, the
priest first asked for St. Paul, but the saint was gone. Father
Michael then realized he had spent a whole day in freezing
cold dressed only in a thin alb. Yet his body was warm and
normal in every respect.

Despite protests, Father Michael left at once for Jasna Gora,
a distance of 70 miles. On his return he brought a beautiful
portrait of Our Lady of Czestochowa. It was placed in the
church and many of his parishioners received graces and

blessings through it and through the Lady it represented