Green Velo

The most famous Marian Sanctuary of the Bug River Valley is associated with a sensational story of the acquisition of the Madonna of Guadalupe painting by Prince Nicholas Pius Sapieha.

According to legend, popularized in The Blessed Guilt, a book by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, the image was allegedly stolen from the papal chapel. Today, it is located in the main altar of the Kodeń basilica. For centuries, it has been a place of worship, attracting crowds of pilgrims and tourists to the Bug area, who stay at in the resort run by the Missionary Oblates. Left over from the old castle of the Sapieha family are the cellars and a brick chapel from the first half of the 16th century, combining Gothic architecture with Renaissance stonework decorations.