ROZWÓJ KULTU ŚW. JÓZEFA W POLSCE A SIEDEMNASTOWIECZNA FUNDACJA KOŚCIOŁA PARAFIALNEGO PW. ŚW. JÓZEFA OBLUBIEŃCA NAJŚWIĘTSZEJ MARYI PANNY W BIELINACH
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULT OF ST. JOSEPH IN POLAND AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PARISH CHURCH OF ST. JOSEPH SPOUSE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN BIELINY

Summary/Abstract: On 30 October 1637, Bishop Jakub Zadzik (1582-1642), at the request of Krzysztof Jóźwik, the owner of glassworks in Kokanin and its vicinity, erected and endowed the parish of St. Joseph the Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bieliny, a town lying in the property of the bishops of Kraków. The Kraków chapter approved the privileges granted by the bishop to the church and peasants. The patronage over the temple was taken over by Jakub Zadzik. Its construction began that same year. K. Jóźwik, as the founder, took part in everything, worked on erecting walls and took care of the church’s furnishings. He bought a monstrance, solicited the installation of an organ, and allocated funds for the organist’s upkeep. The construction of the temple took less than six years and on 14 June 1643, the bishop of Kraków, Tomasz Oborski, consecrated it. The article attempts to answer the question of who decided that the temple in a small town near Kielce, constructed in the first half of the 17th century, was dedicated to St. Joseph Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Poland at that time, only a few monastic churches located in large cities: Kraków, Lublin and Poznań had such patrons. Was it the decision of the Bishop of Kraków? Was the choice of the patron influenced by the initiator and the builder of the new parish and church, K. Jóźwik?

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