Slovenian National shrine – Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians
National Marian shrine whose venerated Virgin and Child draws pilgrims to a neo-baroque basilica.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians at Brezje, near Lake Bled, follows Leopold Layer, a baroque painter from Kranj, through the years of French occupation, when money trouble pushed his talent toward a crime. It touches a prison vow, a parish priest who had studied in Innsbruck, and the village healings of eighteen sixty-three that filled Brezje with pilgrims. Best heard in the chapel of Mary Help of Christians, facing the altar.
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