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Częstochowa

American  
[chan-staw-haw-vah] / ˌtʃɛ̃ stɔˈhɔ vɑ /

noun

  1. a city in S Poland.


Częstochowa British  
/ tʃɛ̃stɔˈxɔva /

noun

  1. an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)

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Raków Częstochowa is 11 points ahead of Legia Warsaw with four games left.

From Washington Times

This is a character in a state of perpetual transformation, especially after the trauma he endured in the Częstochowa prison.

From Seattle Times

The Polish interior minister, Joachim Brudziński, announced on Twitter on Monday that a person had been arrested for “carrying out a profanation of the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa”.

From The Guardian

The “Black Madonna of Częstochowa” is a revered Byzantine icon that resides in the monastery of Jasna Góra, a UN world heritage site and Poland’s holiest Catholic shrine.

From The Guardian

“Your own history, shaped by the Gospel, the Cross and fidelity to the Church, has seen the contagious power of a genuine faith, passed down from family to family, from fathers to sons and above all from mothers and grandmothers,” the pope said during Mass at the shrine of the so-called Black Madonna of Częstochowa.

From The Wall Street Journal