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CYBULIN, GM. BODZANÓW, POW. PŁOCKI

Written by olimpadmin on . Published in Mazovia, God's feet.

A stone lying in a hollow of land, in the fields between Cybulin and Parkoczew. According to a local legend, one of the natural depressions visible on the surface of the stone is supposed to be a footprint left by the Virgin Mary. The first information about the boulder and the footprint on its surface
comes from 1868 (Kurjer Codz. 1868, 3): "how evidently imprinted is the human foot, similar entirely to the deep mark one encounters on damp sand when standing on it with a bare foot. The hollow is so smooth and in every place the essence of a hard stone, that, unable to suppose that someone with a chisel gouged this hollow, one should wonder if on such a hard object as cobblestone, a soft human foot could have left this mark, which most likely
is as old as the stone itself."

Post-glacial erratic boulder, gray-pink granite measuring about 4 × 1.20 m; only part of the stone exposed, the rest is underground. A depression that can be interpreted as a footprint measuring 25 cm long × 10 cm wide, 0.5 cm deep. Traces of digging the stone and attempts to break it are visible. According to informants from the village of Cybulin, the stone was repeatedly attempted to be smashed or made to crack, including by burning tires on it.

Sources of information: Kurjer Codz. 1868, 3; Baruch 1907, 28-29; field queries

Geographic coordinates: 52.48925, 20.07033

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KAMION, GM. MŁODZIESZYN, POV. SOCHACZEWSKI

Written by olimpadmin on . Published in Mazovia, Stones with signs, God's feet, Stones with engravings of crosses.

An erratic boulder of red granite, according to tradition with an imprint of the foot of the Virgin Mary or St. Jack. It is built into a chapel standing next to St. Jack's church. Legend links it to St. Jack Odrowaz, a Silesian-born Dominican who visited Mazovia in the first half of the 13th century during one of his missionary journeys. In the vicinity of Wyszogród, together with the missionary brothers accompanying him, he crossed the swollen Vistula River on his own cloak "as in the safest boat". According to local lore, the footprint left by the saint is a reminder of this crossing (according to the Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom and the monograph by M. Baruch, the foot of the Virgin Mary was supposed to be imprinted on the stone). The stone is partially enclosed by a brick chapel topped with a cast iron cross; originally the boulder was the base for a statue of the Virgin Mary. Dimensions of the stone: front 125 cm wide, 127 cm high; back part 137 cm wide, 140 cm high; width 80 cm (the part enclosed by the shrine). Footprint on the left side of the stone, dimensions 18 × 5 cm, depth 0.5 cm. In the lower part of the stone a forging in the form of a cross, in the upper part a niche. The name of the village is said to derive from the stone (Geographical Dictionary 1902, XV, 51).

Sources of information: Geographical Dictionary 1902, XV, 51; Baruch 1907, 28; field queries

Geographic coordinates: 52.36733, 20.20171

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