Marija Bistrica

Marija Bistrica is a marian shrine of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 46.00447, 16.11939. Attributes: built, cultural, pilgrimage. Tradition: Christianity. Associated figure: Our Lady of Bistrica. Marija Bistrica (Croatian pronunciation: [mǎrija bîstrit͡sa]) is a village and municipality in the Krapina-Zagorje County in central Croatia, located on the slopes of the Medvednica mountain in the Hrvatsko Zagorje region north of the capital Zagreb. The municipality has 5,976 inhabitants, with 1,071 residents in the settlement itself (2011 census). Marija Bistrica has an old Marian shrine of the Black Madonna which is a place of pilgrimage and visited by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims every year. On 3 October 1998, Pope John Paul II visited Marija Bistrica and beatified Croatian Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac in front of a crowd of 500,000 Croatians. Located in Općina Marija Bistrica, Krapinsko-zagorska županija, Croatia.

Nearby sacred places create the location cluster described in the growth plan. This block is intentionally crawlable and links into the wider regional graph.

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Marija Bistrica, Croatia

0.8 km away

Black Madonna of Lavanttal

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Basilica Maria Loreto, St. Andra

St. Andrä im Lavanttal, Carinthia, Austria

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Szombathely, St. Martin’s Church

Szombathely, Western Transdanubia, Hungary

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