Epizod z dziejów rodu Sobieskich. Dokument fundacji Mszy świętej wotywnej o Najświętszym Sakramencie w katedrze chełmskiej w Krasnymstawie (1635)
An episode in the history of the House of Sobieski. A document of funding a votive Eucharist mass in the Chełm cathedral in Krasnystaw (1635)

Summary/Abstract: The history of the House of Sobieski was connected with the regions of Chełm and Lublin. An example of this is a little known event which happened in Krasnystaw in spring 1635. Jakub Sobieski, the starost of Krasnystaw and the father of the future king John III Sobieski, was staying there in the castle with his close family. His oldest son Marek, being 7 years old then, became seriously ill. Despite the fact that a popular doctor came to help, it seemed that the child would die. At the boy’s mother’s request, the boy received the First Holy Communion in the form of viaticum from the prior of the Augustinian-Eremetical monastery. To everyone’s surprise the child felt better immediately and soon recovered. It was considered supernatural, especially because the doctor’ s opinion was such. In memory of this fact, Jakub Sobieski funded in the Chełm cathedral in Krasnystaw a votive Eucharist mass, which was supposed to be said every Thursday. Thanks to the funds, the number of the clergy in the cathedral increased by one additional vicar. The content of the funding document, so far poorly known and mistakenly quoted in historiography, was taken from a registration in a consistory book of the Chełm diocese in Latin rite, which is now housed in the Archive of the Archdiocese of Lublin and appended to this article as edito maior.

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