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An old pilgrimage church whose history generally remained unknown for years. The first temple here was built before 1390, as confirmed by the discovery during conservation works of the stone foundation of the original church. The current one was built in the 14th century and gradually expanded in the following centuries. There is plenty of evidence that the temple was a popular pilgrimage destination. Around 1390 (or 1398 according to other sources), a “Eucharistic miracle” occurred in the Osieki church in the form of a bleeding host. The chronicler Daniel Cramer mentions this in his 17th-century “Pommerische Chronica” (Pomeranian Chronicle), but there are other sources as well. The pilgrimages continued until the Reformation when the memory of the 14th-century miracle began to fade. The Protestants erased all traces of the miracle from the church, walling up the ambry where the host was kept, and the host itself was supposedly taken in 1534 by the local pastor, Otto Schulto. The ambry, which had been walled up around 1535, was discovered during conservation works in 2015.