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There were times when people told legends of saints and the blessedblesseds, of their great piety and their alleged miracles, to give the faithful people an example of how to heroically keep one's faith and stay in God's grace. Nowadays, some of these stories are being told to help sell beer. We've already talked about the legend of "[[Saint Piva of Warka]]"; today. Today, on the 416th anniversary (+1 daygive or take a few days) of his death, we're going to take a look at a certain Błażej Pęcherek (pronounced ''{{small|BWAH}}-zhey pen-{{small|HEH}}-rek''), who lived Greater Poland, a region in what is now west-central Poland. He is better known as Father Bernard of Wąbrzeźno (pronounced ''vawm-{{small|BZHEZH}}-naw'')and is famous for his legendary role in the creation of Grodziskie beer.
[[File:Piwo z Grodziska 2.jpg|thumb|upright|''Piwo z Grodziska'', or Beer from Grodzisk]]
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| In 1599, Błażej from 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.
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 unusual 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 keg 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.