Księża „rytualiści” i pogrzeby ziemiańskie w guberni mińskiej w II połowie XIX wieku Komunikat
„Ritualistic” priests and landowners’ funerals in the Minsk guberniya in the second half of the 19th century. Announcement

Author(s): Roman Jurkowski
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Taken Lands; Minsk guberniya; Polish landowners; Catholic church; „ritualists” priests
Summary/Abstract: The article is information about research problem describing the relationship betweenPolish landowners from the Minsk Governorate and Catholic priests, called „ritualists”who adopted the Russian language in the so-called additional services. The situation tookplace in the second half of the 19th century, after the January Uprising, when, under pressurefrom the Russian authorities and despite the Vatican, some Catholic priests used the Russianlanguage during Catholic masses and during funerals. This caused strong resistance from thePolish Catholic landed gentry, who did not want to hear the Russian language during suchsad celebrations as family funerals. The article presents three funerals in the well-knownborderland Wańkowicz family, during which the mourners were forced to accept the presenceof a „ritualist” priest.

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