Helping Virgin Mary Chapel (Kiskút)

Baron Rezső Kruchina hung a painting depicting Mary with the Baby Jesus on a tree in the Kiskút grove in 1928. He prayed here for his seriously ill son, then he added a sign with the words “Mary has helped” in thanks for his healing. In 1938, the respect for this picture in a chapel recess spread and the number of signs of thanks grew further. In the summer of 1947, the picture was torn from its frame, ripped in half and slashed. The culprit was caught, who (according to the official report) had been commissioned to do it for 30 forints by a stranger sitting in a car with Viennese plates. The whole diocese clubbed together to construct a home to safeguard the picture. Worshippers from Győr making pilgrimage to the September Osli indulgence pilgrimage collected donations for the chapel’s design. Sándor Schneider was then commissioned realise this. On 12 October, the restored picture was accompanied back to Kiskút by ten thousand people, each with a brick in their hands, led by Bishop Kálmán Papp. Many more people joined the crowd with even more building materials. The construction was done by voluntary work. The chapel’s foundation stone was laid by Jesuit Missionary Bishop, Miklós Szarvas, on 23 May 1948. The sanctuary of the pilgrimage chapel built in honour of the Helping Virgin Mary is open to the front and continues into nature. There is also a curved, branched, covered arcade opening to the left and right of the nave shaped by two arms. There is a St Joseph picture column transformed from the former chapel standing behind the building.