The story is that long ago a gypsy woman's child was sick and about to die. She prayed that the child survive, and when he did, she cut her hair off and gave it to the church. So the statue (behind a screen one of the monks controlled with a remote control and only opened so we could see it) has real human hair.

One weeken each June gypsies come from all over Poland to this church, as a kind of pilgrimage.