Pilgrimages as one of the elements of the restoration of a vacation spot in the village of Krylos 1989-2018

Abstract

This article is aimed at the research of the re-establishment of a sacred place in the Krylos village, Ivano-Frankivsk region in 1989-2018. There are still living witnesses of how people traveled from all over Galychyna to Krylos Mountaine in carts, on foot, and on horses. Hundreds of carts were beset the territory of the current village stadium and access roads. People wanted to pray to the miraculous icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to drink miraculous water from the so-called "Franciskan springs". There are many confirmed facts about their miraculous qualities. The development of the sacred place began on December 12, 1989, according to the letter of Fr. Ivan Maslyak dated March 8, 1990, in which he noted the following: "...on December 12, 1989, the parish community of the village of Krylos, Galych district, Ivano-Frankivsk region, unanimously returned to the bosom of the ancestral Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, which is confirmed by the voting protocol of parishioners in the presence representative of the Galych district government". From this historical moment, the re-establishment of the abandoned, destroyed and completely ruined sacred place as well as the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Krylos, Ivano-Frankivsk region, begins. One of the important elements of the re-establishment of a sacred place is crowded pilgrimages. Based on the very meaning of the word, “pilgrimage” means the possibility of receiving forgiveness from God for our sins. This is why, for thousands of years, pilgrims from different countries have been making difficult and sometimes dangerous pilgrimages to holy places, asking Almighty God for forgiveness of sins. These are different places, such as: Rome, Turin, Jerusalem, Lourdes, Fatima, Medjugorje, Zarvanytsia, Goshiv, Pogonya, Krylos. In this research, I would like to analyze exclusively the verses to the “Galych Miraculous Icon”, which is kept in the village of Krylos, Ivano-Frankivsk district, Ivano-Frankivsk region. In this research, I would like to analyze three types of sacred places that influenced the development of a sacred place in the Krylos village (1989-2018), namely: 1. Youth parishes of the Ivano-Frankivsk Diocese; 2. International pilgrimage of the rosaries; 3.Patriarchal Pilgrimages to the Galych Miraculous Icon.