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A Barrel of Beer for the Benedictine Brothers

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[[File:Piwo z Grodziska 2.jpg|thumb|upright|''Piwo z Grodziska'', or Beer from Grodzisk]]
Here's the legend as told by Greater Poland's official tourist website:
 
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| In 1599, Błażej of Wąbrzeźno joined the Benedictine monastery at Lubiń, taking the monastic name Bernard. At that time, Greater Poland was being ravaged by numerous plagues. One day, the monk arrived in the town of Grodzisk, which was affected by pestilence. What he saw there was terrible to behold. The entire town seemed deserted. The streets were littered with corpses with no one to bury them.
 
Here's the legend as told by Greater Poland's official tourist website:
All of the town's wells had gone dry, even the largest one, from which local beer brewers drew water for their breweries. Those who hadn't succumbed to the disease now faced starvation. The monk took pity on the burghers, so he fell to his knees and began to pray fervently for God to have mercy on the town. When he made a sign of the cross over the well, it started to fill with water. What was particular about the water was that whoever drank it, would recover from illness, and that the beer brewed from it has become famous. After Father Bernard's death, the inhabitants of Grodzisk start yearly pilgrimages, bringing a barrel of Grodzisk beer to his grave at Lubiń. This tradition survived as long as Grodzisk beer was being brewed. The locals hope to revive it one day.