Kult św. Józefa w zakonie i klasztorze karmelitańskim w Wadowicach
The devotion to St. Joseph by the Order and the Monastery of The Carmelites in Wadowice

Summary/Abstract: Starting with the article of the "Consitution" of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (No. 52) which requires monks to worship St. Joseph, and following the exemple of St. Teresa of Jesus, the great Carmelite reformer, this article illustrates the cult of St. Joseph in the Carmelite Order, which describes, inter alia, the monastery founded by this same Order in Wadowice. The study refers to the significant Carmelite legend about the visit of the Holy Family to the Carmelite hermits on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land which is depicted, among others, in the fresco painted on the ceiling of the Basilica of the "Stella Maris" in Haifa. This legend is a manifestation of the orgins of the cult of St. Joseph since the beginnig of the Order. The original Carmelites, driven out from Mount Carmel in the middle of the thirteenth century by the Saracens, moved to Europe, taking with them the cult and worship of St. Joseph and facilitated is spread throughout the Church. This was also due mainly to St. Teresa of Jesus, the grat devotee of the Betrothal of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With the increase in worship of and emphasis on St. Joseph in Carmelite spirituality, there was also the founding of the first Discalced Carmelites in Poland, who estabilshed a monastery in Poznań in 1618 and built on Polish soil the first church under the patronage of St. Joseph. Later, they were instrumental in having him declared Patron of the royal city of Kraków (1715). St. Raphael Kalinowski was a great worshipper of St. Joseph. He was the restorer of the Carmelite life in Poland after the dissolution of the religious order during invasions into Poland. In 1892 he founded the monastery church of St. Joseph in Wadowice. This was entirely in keeping with the cult and worship of St. Joseph which had become part of the spirituality of the Order - and this church has become a thriving and vital centre of the cult of St. Joseph until today. St. John Paul II - Karol Józef Wojtyła - on the 25th anniversary of his pontificate (because of the patron of his second baptismal name) Wadowice, on March 19, 2005 Cardinal Franciszek Macharski, Archbishop of Kraków established this church as the Sanctuary of St. Joseph for the Archdiocese of Kraków.

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