History

Święte Miejsce, formerly named Bartny Borek, is - according to a legend - a place of revelation of the Mother of God in the crown of a lime tree, attracting numerous pilgrimages. A well was located nearby, whose water gained miraculous healing powers after that event. In 1700 in the place of revelation, known under the name Święte Miejsce [Holy Place] since that event, the believers erected a wooden shrine where they offered their supplications to the Mother of God. Numerous pilgrims began to arrive at the miraculous place. It lasted several dozen years. The glory of this place became ever more widely known. However, on a certain day the water lost its healing properties. As a legend has it - all due to a heartless mother who drowned her child in the well. A spring miraculously healing all diseases was commemorated by a shrine erected at the turn of the 19th century. In the early 20th century a wooden church was also built in the place of revelation.

Description

The church complex is located at the crossroads - it stands on the south side of a road from Przasnysz to Drążdżewo and on the west side of a road from Grabów to Stara Krępa - on a rectangular plot surrounded by a non-plastered wall of fieldstones that restricts the church yard (accessible via entrances on three sides).

The shrine is located on the church graveyard, on the north side of the fence. Its entrance faces the south. Its walls are made of fieldstones, plastered on both sides, low and with a four-stepped finial cornice. It was arranged on a rotunda floor plan, covered with an octagonal wooden roof clad in sheet metal, crowned with a bulbous pinnacle with a metal crucifix. The entrance to a single-space interior leads through a wooden, single-wing door terminating in a segmental arch.

The object is open to visitors.

Author of the note Jerzy Szałygin, National Institute of Cultural Heritage, Regional Branch in Warsaw 01-02-2018

Bibliography

• Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary along with a bell tower in Święte Miejsce:http://www.mazowieckiszlaktradycji.com/poi-lista/kosciol-pw-narodzenia-najswietszej-marii-panny-wraz-z-dzwonnica-w-swietym-miejscu/?Print=1
• Grzybowski M.M. Rev., Matka Boska Bartnicka. Szkic z dziejów parafii i cudownego obrazu w Świętym Miejscu, Płock 1985.
• The Stanislaus of Szczepanów parish in Święte Miejsce: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parafia_%C5%9Bw._Stanis%C5%82awa_Biskupa_w_%C5%9Awi%C4%99tym_Miejscu
• The Stanislaus of Szczepanów parish in Święte Miejsce:  http://parafia-swiete-miejsce.pl.tl/Witaj-na-stronie.htm
• Święte Miejsce - the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary church:http://www.drewnianemazowsze.pl/swiete-miejsce-kosciol/