During the reign of St. Ladislaus, King of Poland, in the fifteenth century, the Tartars stole and vandalized the image. But the holy icon was recovered and restored. Many times in the following centuries the Holy Virgin demonstrated her miraculous protection of the Polish people through her icon. The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa is sometimes referred to as the "Black Madonna" because of the black color of the original, caused by age and the accumulated soot of the ages.