Pietas Et Litterae. Wpływ kolegium pijarów w Podolińcu na rozwój dawnego szkolnictwa
Pietas Et Litterae. The Influence of the Piarist College in Podolínec on the Development of Old-Time Education

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the exhibition Pietas et litterae in the ‘Old Synagogue’ Gallery in Nowy Sącz, where surviving souvenirs from the Piarist college in Podolínec were presented. Most of the exhibits presented have left their storage places during the exhibition for the fi rst time in centuries. These included parchment diplomas, handwritten chronicles of colleges, books recording the students, monks and novices, books of deceased lecturers, old prints and books published in the nineteenth century, portraits of professors from Podolínec, the founder of the monastery and college in Podolínec, Stanisław Lubomirski, and paintings from the series of “Żywot św. Józefa Kalasantego”, as well as liturgical robes, a seal with the image of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, a paramentary (i.e. a painted wardrobe for liturgical robes and instruments), a map of the Hungarian Piarist Province, a painted view of Podolínec from 1836 and school certifi cates of a student of the Jan Kaleta College. The exhibits presented at the exhibition have been borrowed from the Central Archive of the Hungarian Piarist Province in Budapest, the Museum in Stará Ľubovňa, the Piarist Archive and Library in Krakow, the National Museum in Krakow, the Józef Szujski Public Library in Nowy Sącz, the Piarist College in Prievidza, the Roman Catholic parishes in Podolínec and Toporec, as well as from the private collections of Ludwik Kaleta of Podolínec.

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