Churches & monasteries
In the centre of Kroczyce, in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, stands the brick two-towered church of St. Hyacinth and St. Mary Magdalene. Its history begins much earlier: the first wooden church was built here in 1427, founded by the knight Piotr Firlej as a votive offering for his safe return from the Battle of Grunwald. The original patroness was St. Mary Magdalene; St. Hyacinth was added only in the 20th century.
The current church was built in the 19th century on the site of its wooden predecessor and belongs today to the Diocese of Kielce. Its most surprising feature is the main altar shaped like a grotto, modelled on the Grotto of Lourdes and made of local calcite — the same mineral that forms the dripstone decorations of the Jura caves. In 1616 an image of St. Mary Magdalene in a silver dress, famed for its graces, was brought here from Rome. The church also keeps relics of St. Mary Magdalene, of the True Cross, of St. Emerentiana and St. Felicity. It is worth visiting the St. Hyacinth chapel with the statue of the saint flanked by two angels.
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