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{{Short description|17th-century painting in Poland}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| image_file=Matka Boska kalwaryjska.jpg
| title=Our Lady of Calvary
| artist=[[Anonymity|Anonymous]]
| year=before 1641
| medium=oil on canvas
| height_metric=90
| width_metric=74
| metric_unit=cm
| imperial_unit=in
| museum=Sanctuary of Calvary, [[Kalwaria Zebrzydowska]]
}}
'''''Our Lady of Calvary''''' is a 17th-century painting situated in the [[Kalwaria Zebrzydowska park|shrine of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska]], one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in [[Poland]]. According to legend, the painting wept in 1641.<ref>Neil Wilson and others, ''Poland'', Lonely Planet, 5th edition (2005), p. 210.</ref> The owner presented the painting to the Bernardine monastery at Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. Veneration of the painting was authorized fifteen years later, and a chapel was commissioned to house it.<ref>Barbara Swiech, [http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art65368.asp Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Sanctuary], BellaOnline. Retrieved 22 March 2010.</ref> The painting was [[Canonical coronation|canonically crowned]] by [[Pope Leo XIII]] on 15 August 1887.

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