The Foundation by bishop Stefan Wierzbicki for Bemardine Friars in Góra Kalwaria near Warsaw Cover Image

Fundacja biskupa Stefana Wierzbowskiego dla Bernardynów w Górze Kalwarii koło Warszawy
The Foundation by bishop Stefan Wierzbicki for Bemardine Friars in Góra Kalwaria near Warsaw

Author(s): Wiesław Murawiec
Subject(s): Architecture, History of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: foundation; bishop Stefan Wierzbowski; Bernardine Friars; Góra Kalwaria

Summary/Abstract: The foundation of churches and chapels of the Passion of Christ, i.e. the New Jerusalem in the Czersk poviat near Warsaw in the second half of the 17th century was the work of Poznań bishop Stefan Wierzbowski. He handed over the main church and several roadside shrines to the care of the Order of Friars Minor of the Lesser Poland Province (commonly known as the Bernardines).

  • Issue Year: 8/2002
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-148
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish