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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Nowa Wieś Reszelska
| settlement_type = Village
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| image_skyline = Kapliczka w Nowej Wsi Reszelskiej 1.jpg
| image_caption = The shrine to Virgin Mary in Nowa Wieś Reszelska
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Warmian-Masurian]]
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| subdivision_name2 = [[Bartoszyce County|Bartoszyce]]
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| subdivision_name3 = [[Gmina Bisztynek|Bisztynek]]
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'''Nowa Wieś Reszelska''' {{IPAc-pl|'|n|o|w|a|-|'|w|j|e|ś|-|r|e|'|sz|e|l|s|k|a}} is a [[village]] in the administrative district of [[Gmina Bisztynek]], within [[Bartoszyce County]], [[Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship]], in northern Poland.<ref name="TERYT">{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=pl}}</ref>

The village is located in the north of the Warmia and
Mazury voivodeship, 9 km from [[Bisztynek]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://encyklopedia.warmia.mazury.pl/index.php/Nowa_Wie%C5%9B_Reszelska|title = Nowa Wieś Reszelska|access-date = 2015-11-16|website = Encyklopedia Warmii i Mazur|publisher = Centrum Edukacji i Inicjatyw Kulturalnych w Olsztynie|location = Olsztyn}}</ref> In 2010, it had a population of 40. In 1975–1998, when a different administrative division was in place, it was located in [[Olsztyn Voivodeship]]. Each August 26, Nowa Wieś Reszelska becomes a destination for pilgrims who come from nearby villages to participate in a [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]] and [[Fair|church fair]] that take place at the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Częstochowa.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Odpust w Nowej Wsi Reszelskiej|url = http://bisztynek.wm.pl/216827,Odpust-w-Nowej-Wsi-Reszelskiej.html#axzz3lGlkWR9N|website = bisztynek.wm.pl|access-date = 2015-11-15}}</ref>

== The shrine's history ==
[[File:Pielgrzymka Nowa Wieś Reszelska 11.jpg|thumb|Pilgrims entering Nowa Wieś Reszelska]]
The shrine was built at the turn of the 20th century. Such shrines are quite common in the [[Warmia]] region.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Kapliczki Warmii|url = http://kapliczkiwarmii.republika.pl/kapliczki.html|website = kapliczkiwarmii.republika.pl|access-date = 2015-11-15|last = Kurpiuk|first = Stanisław}}</ref> The shrine was considered to be a [[List of Historic Monuments (Poland)|historical monument]] as early as in the 1920s and 1930s, and it was registered in the Historic Preservation Office in [[Königsberg]]. Typically for Warmia's shrines, it was built on private land.

The shrine is a mix of folk and [[Church architecture|sacral architecture]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = Kaplice - Encyklopedia Warmii i Mazur|url = http://encyklopedia.warmia.mazury.pl/index.php/Kaplice|website = Encyklopedia Warmii i Mazur|access-date = 2015-11-15|language = pl-PL}}</ref> Originally covered only in white [[Plasterwork|plaster]], later it was painted in a variety of colours - white, [[celadon]] and blue, and there used to be standing crosses around it, since it probably was a burial site after the [[World War I|First World War]]. There are several shrines like this in the area (St. Anthony's Shrine in [[Warmiany]], St. Peter and Paul's Shrine in [[Łędławki]], the historic filial shrine in [[Księżno, Bartoszyce County|Księżno]]).<ref>{{Cite web|title = Ciekawe Mazury - Informacja o ciekawych miejscach, przewodnik w podróży|url = http://www.ciekawemazury.pl/opis/2835,Warmiany+-+Kaplica+%25C5%259Bw.+Antoniego.htm|website = www.ciekawemazury.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16}}</ref> Unlike a typical roadside shrine, the ones from the Warmia region are small, one-room buildings. Local people used them in place of churches.<ref name=":1" /> They were also built on private land as an [[Votum|expression of gratitude]] for recovering from an illness, or avoiding a natural disaster like flood or fire.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Warmińskie kapliczki. Cz. 1|last = Bojenko|first = Mirosław|publisher = nakładem autora|year = 2011|isbn = 978-83-933413-0-6|location = Dobre Miasto|last2 = Brosch|first2 = Adam|url = http://www.domwarminski.pl/images/dw/kapliczki_b/kapl_1-312.pdf}}</ref>

After the [[World War II|Second World War]] the villagers from Nowa Wieś Reszelska would organize [[May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary|May Devotions]] in the shrine. They were held without a priest and [[Marian litany|Marian litanies]] and songs were sung by the faithful. Usually the service was led by a woman from the village. The June services were also held there, as well as the October rosary meetings. After the war, paintings and sculptures had been found at the shrine – such as a [[Pietà]] and an [[Ascension of Jesus|Ascension scene]]. However, some of them had been stolen and others, due to their condition, were given to the [[Museum of Warmia & Mazury]] in [[Olsztyn]]. Today, only the altar and sculptures of saints are original, pre-war works of art.

When in 1978 [[Pope John Paul II|Karol Wojtyła]] became the pope, Stanisław Szymko, a villager, funded the shrine's renovation. Other villagers helped in the work, and when it was complete, women from Nowa Wieś Reszelska decided to buy a new painting in Olsztyn, which still hangs in the shrine. The painting depicts the [[Black Madonna of Częstochowa|Blessed Virgin Mary of Częstochowa]] and was consecrated by the Reverend Eugeniusz Bukowski.

== The shrine today ==
[[File:Reszelska poczestunek grochowka OSP 1.jpg|thumb|During the fair traditional [[pea soup]] is offered to the visitors free of charge.]]
Each [[Easter]] the traditional [[Święconka|food blessing]] takes place at the shrine. In May the faithful gather there for [[May devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary|May Devotions]] and on 26 August (the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa Day) a [[Indulgence|Plenary Indulgence Mass]] is celebrated. According to a Warmia tradition, once a year a plenary indulgence mass has to be celebrated on the day of a shrine's [[patron saint]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Bisztynek - odpust w Nowej Wsi Reszelskiej|url = http://www.bisztynek24.pl/odpust2012nwr.html|website = www.bisztynek24.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16|last = Grabowski|first = Andrzej}}</ref> It was this ceremony that drew the attention of the people living in the nearby village of [[Sątopy, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship|Sątopy]], who eventually began to travel to Nowa Wieś Reszelska to attend the plenary indulgence mass. Jadwiga Kuźlik, the village leader, had the shrine renovated and painted blue - the colour of Virgin Mary.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Ciekawe Mazury - Informacja o ciekawych miejscach, przewodnik w podróży|url = http://www.ciekawemazury.pl/opis/2827,Nowa+Wie%25C5%259B+-+Reszelska+Kaplica+p.w.+Matki+Bo%25C5%25BCej.htm|website = www.ciekawemazury.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16}}</ref>

== The pilgrimage ==
The tradition of pilgrimages to the Shrine of Virgin Mary of Częstochowa began with the Reverend Józef Leonowicz, who first consecrated the shrine and then organized a church fair and pilgrimage. Although no more than 7 families lived in Nowa Wieś Reszelska, the news about the pilgrimage spread across the whole area. With each coming year, more and more people from neighbouring villages participated in the mass and the fair. At one time over 100 people participated in the event. Pilgrimages to nearby sites (in the Warmia dialect called ''łosiera'') usually take place near large religious centres like the [[Święta Lipka|marine sanctuary in Święta Lipka]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Z łosierą do...|url = http://www.domwarminski.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=255:z-losiera-do&catid=47&Itemid=208|website = Dom Warmiński|access-date = 2015-11-16|language = pl}}</ref> Pilgrimages to such a small shrine like the one in Nowa Wieś Reszelska are very rare.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.bisztynek24.pl/wiki_nwr.html|title = Zwyczajami z Nowej Wsi Reszelskiej zainteresowało się Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne i Wikipedia|last = Grabowski|first = Andrzej|date = 2015-08-23|work = Bisztynek24.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16}}</ref>
[[File:Reszelska wywiad z mieszkanka wsi 1.jpg|thumb|Ethnographers interviewing participants of the yearly pilgrimage]]
The annual pilgrimage from Sątopy to Nowa Wieś Reszelska has been taking place for at least 20 years. Initially the pilgrimage, mass and fair were held on 26 August, on the Day of Blessed Virgin Mary of Częstochowa. However, since the mass started to be accompanied by a fair and a [[beach volleyball]] match, the event has been moved to the last or third Saturday of August.<ref>{{Cite web|title = ODPUST I ŚWIĘTO PLONÓW W NOWEJ WSI RESZELSKIEJ|url = http://www.bisztynek24.pl/onwr.html|website = www.bisztynek24.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16}}</ref>

== The contemporary pilgrimage ==
In August 2015 the person leading the procession held a flower-adorned cross. Three young boys, who symbolized the Holy Trinity, walked behind it and they were followed by a priest and then the rest of the faithful - about 50 people. During the procession religious songs were sung and mid-way flowers were laid at a small, roadside shrine. The pilgrimage travelled to the Shrine of Virgin Mary of Częstochowa in Nowa Wieś Reszelska. In 2015 over 50 people, mostly elderly, participated in the event.

== The plenary indulgence mass ==
[[File:Kapliczka w Nowej Wsi Reszelskiej 6.jpg|thumb|As the chapel is small, the mass is held outdoors.]]
On the day of the mass the pilgrims sit on benches in front of the shrine. Then the holy mass takes place. Receiving indulgence is the reason for the pilgrimage and [[Confession (religion)|confession]] is the most important element of the mass. Since there are no [[confessional]]s in the shrine, the confession usually takes place in the open air. Some people still remember that in 1994 the Reverend Leonowicz due to heavy rains heard confessions in his car: "He heard confessions in a [[FSO Polonez|Polonez]] car. Each of us would enter, he was sitting behind the wheel, and we confessed our sins".<ref>{{Cite web|title = BISZTYNEK - ODPUST W NOWEJ WSI RESZELSKIEJ|url = http://www.bisztynek24.pl/odpust2012nwr.html|website = www.bisztynek24.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16}}</ref>

== Harvest festival ==
The Mass on the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa Day coincides with the local [[harvest festival]] and a variety of flower and plant adornments decorate the shrine and the altar. During the Mass a harvest festival bread is placed on the altar, where it remains until the mass' end. Afterwards the village leader shares it with the pilgrims.<ref>{{Cite web|title = BISZTYNEK/NOWA WIES RESZELSKA - ROWEROWA GMINA - WYCIECZKA DWUNASTA|url = http://www.bisztynek24.pl/rowerowa_gmina12.html|website = www.bisztynek24.pl|access-date = 2015-11-16}}</ref> Pots with flowers and ears of wheat and rye as well as wicker baskets filled with vegetables stand next to the altar. They symbolize the year's harvest. The shrine's entrance is festooned with garlands as well.<ref name=":0" />

== The fair ==
After the mass, a fair takes place near the shrine, during which a beach volleyball tournament is held, local specialities are available and women from Nowa Wieś Reszelska offer home-made food. The harvest festival bread is divided among the pilgrims.

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[[Category:Villages in Bartoszyce County]]

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