Czarna Madonna and the two sabre scars nobody can explain away

stay with me, this is matrix-adjacent. the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, the icon at Jasna Góra monastery. it's BLACK — darkened face, supposedly from candle soot and age, fine. but it has two parallel slashes across the right cheek. the story: 1430, Hussite raiders (some say robbers) storm the mon……