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Ustawodawstwo karne w kodyfikacji płockiej biskupa Jakuba z Korzkwi (1396-1425).

Author(s): Patrycja Herod / Language(s): Polish Issue: 98/2012

This article presents the person of Bishop of Plock Jakub from Korzkiew, the arms-bearing Syrokomla, a distinguished author of Plock codification. It shows his work in the Roman Curia, the service for his country, the relationship with the Teutonic Order, his characteristics as an administrator and pastor of the diocese entrusted to him. Then the author focuses entirely on the synodical statutes of Plock announced on January 26, 1423 by Jakub. The synods which are discussed refer to the bishopric, the stages of establishing the Plock Code and the characteristic of the particular regulations. The whole text is crowned by a presentation of various punitive measures adopted by the legislator in this classic of Polish medieval canon law.

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Działania promocyjne kościelnych bibliotek naukowych na przykładzie Biblioteki Teologicznej Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach.

Author(s): Agata Muc / Language(s): Polish Issue: 98/2012

Promotional activities undertaken by the Theological Library at University of Silesia are primarily aimed at informing people about the content of the accumulated books and the offer of services. This goal is achieved by using, appropriately selected and adapted to the needs of the church academic library, promotional tools such as the exhibition advertising, public relations and personal promotion. What proved particularly helpful in creating a positive image of the institution was systematic exhibition advertising, educational and publishing activities, as well as maintaining contact with people through establishing cooperation with various research institutions and associations.

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Romańskie zabytki architektury sakralnej Inowrocławia i Strzelna w świetle fotografii Meydenlendera z 1887 roku.

Author(s): Marcin Danielewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 98/2012

The article concerns a collection of the nineteenth-century photography, which is located in the Iconographic Studio of the Special Collections Department in University Library of Poznań. These unique photos of 1887 were taken by Meydenlender. In addition, some of Meydenlender’s photo prints are in the collections of the Museum of the City of Poznań. The primary objective of the text was to present the collection of photographs depicting Romanesque architecture of Strzelno and Inowrocław. The photographs show the condition of the Church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Inowrocław, the Saint Cross’s Rotunda of Strzelno and the Church dedicated to St. Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are also a valuable source in terms of conservation. In order to introduce a little-known collection of photographic material, the author examined a number of issues directly connected with them. The text touches upon the person of Meydenlender, as well as the issue of when and in what order the photographs of monuments in Strzelno and Inowrocław were taken. There is also information about what happened to the photographic material gathered in two collections. It was possible to determine that after being taken, the two sets of photographs were in different institutions and repeatedly changed their locations. One of the collections was in Berlin in 1906. However, it was impossible to determine what happened to the photographs right after they were taken. Both collections of photographic material were compared with each other. As a result the photographs were counted, and the photos whose authorship cannot be attributed to Meydenlender were selected from the collection of the Museum of the City of Poznań. The basis for further considerations are fifteen photos. Six of them showed the Church devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary in Inowrocław and the other nine the Saint Cross’s Rotunda of Strzelno, the Church dedicated to St. Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other monastic buildings in Strzelno. Only some of the discussed photographs have been published so far, mainly those related to the church in Inowrocław. At the same time it was noted that usually when Meydenlender’s photos were published, the name of the author was not given as he was unknown, and the date of the photos was not given correctly. Photographs are not homogeneous, it is possible that two of them were taken at a different time than the others. The article also indicates the high conservation value of the photos which depict the monuments of Strzelno and Inowrocław before the renovation (respectively in 1892 and the years 1900 to 1902). It is worth mentioning that the two photographs of the Saint Cross’s Rotunda show the foundation tympanum destroyed in 1945, which was set in the outer wall of one of the buildings in 1887. The photos show the terrible condition of the monuments of Strzelno, as well as how their nineteenth-century appearance differed from Romanesque mass of the

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Obraz duszpasterstwa polskojęzycznego w Europie na podstawie wizytacji Rektora Polskiej Misji Katolickiej w Belgii.

Author(s): Józef Szymański / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

The Catholic church in Poland undertook steps to provide optimal pastoral care for the Polish people abroad. These activities were formalized through the creation of the Polish Catholic Missions. The first Polish Catholic Mission was created in France (1922), next one in January 1926 in Belgium. This mission extended its power over Denmark, Holland (1927). The priests who successively held the office of Rector of the Polish Catholic Missions: T. Kotowski, W. Kudłacik and R. Moskwa organized pastoral, cultural, educational life among the Polish people and left, in the form of statements and reports, the descriptions of the condition and situation of the Polish emigrants abroad.

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Kościół w Polsce represjonowany przez władze komunistyczne w latach 1944-1989.

Author(s): Józef Dębiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

After the Second World War, Poland underwent the process of Sovietisation. The entire activity of the new authority was confi ned to the collectivization of agriculture and the fi ght with the Church. It is true that in the years 1944-1947 the authorities adopted a relatively liberal policy towards the Church, which did not exclude, however, repression against clandestine activities of the clergy, and even assassinations. Soon, an open dispute arose between the authorities and the Episcopate, which was caused, among other things, by the cancellation of the concordat, the decree establishing the obligation of civil marriages and authorities’ interference in the church administration on the Recovered Territories (Western and Northern part of Poland). The communist authorities denounced the Catholic clergy for pathological hostility towards communism and post-war reality. Without good reason, they accused the Church of using the pulpit and confessional in this fi ght and supporting anti-communist underground. The period of severe repression against the Church lasted in the years 1948-1955 . It was the period of arrests, trials and bishops’ removal from their dioceses. To fi ght with the Church, the authorities created a separate Department IV in the Ministry of Home Affairs, whose structure survived until the fall of the Communism. The whole clergy was under control. Their activities were documented in the files of the operational records; from 1963 each clerical student joining the seminary had his file. The authorities also restricted the activities of the Catholic University of Lublin and created the Academy of Catholic Theology from the departments in Krakow and Warsaw. In addition, seminarists were obliged to do military service, the aim of which was to disorganize the teaching at the seminary. To settle the confl ict in relations between the state and the Church, the Mixed Commission was established at the initiative of. Its purpose was to resolve confl ict issues. In fact, despite the signed agreement, the communist authorities did not keep their commitments from the beginning. They started subversive activities in the Church, forming the movement of the “patriotic priests” attached to The Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy. They were given, among other things, the stolen property of the charitable church organization “Caritas”. Throughout the whole period of the Communism in Poland (1944-1989) the authorities used repression against 704 diocesan priests and 211 monks. Repressive measures of the Communists against the Church, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to 1989, are part of the martyrdom of the Catholic Church in the 20th century. In the following years only the methods and means changed in the fi ght with the Church, the essence remained always the same-to remove religion from public life.

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Organizacja administracji państwa zakonnego w Prusach do końca XIII wieku.

Author(s): Tomasz Grala / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

Formed during the crusading movement, the Teutonic Knights developed the internal structures in the Holy Land after the act of 1198, structures which survived several centuries and proved to be very useful in the process of building their own state in Prussia. The following work briefly presents the offices of the deputy of the Grandmaster and the chief of military affairs, the official responsible for all hospital affairs, the official responsible for dressing and armament, the treasurer and the castellan. All these officials, except for the castellan, formed the group of the great nobles in Prussia from the 14th century. The increase in property outside the Holy Land contributed to the vertical power structure. A pioneering period in the history of the Teutonic Knights ended during the reign of Grand Master Hermann von Salza; then a new period of building their own state on the Baltic began. Equipped with the imperial privilege, the Teutonic Knights came to the Vistula, where they received from Konrad Mazowiecki in 1230 the privilege conferring the land of Chełmno on them, the land which was the territorial base of their future activity in Prussia. Since then, supported by the knights from western Europe and Germany, they systematically had been conquering Prussia. In the early period of the conquest Polish dukes also helped them. The Teutonic Knights were the winners in the dispute with the Bishop of Prussia, Christian. After suppressing two Prussian uprisings and conquering the land of Jaćwież, the Teutonic Order reached the line of the Niemen and strengthened its reign in the whole Prussia. The organization of the formed religious state was of monarchical type. Dualistic, that is, theocratic and feudal character of the state affected administrative divisions introduced by the Knights. They built well functioning administration, whose characteristic feature was the division into commandries. Although the number of commandries was not steady and the range of their influence would change, generally the primary administrative divisions survived until the fall of the monastic state in Prussia. Among the source material used in this work the chronicles included in Scriptores Rerum Prusicarum are of the basic importance. These chronicles are as follows: The Prussian Chronicle by Peter of Dusburg, The Chronicle of Oliwa by Abbot Stanislaus. In addition, the author used works by German and Polish historians such as: the works of Gerard Labuda, Marian Biskup, Sławomir Jóźwiak, the collective work edited by Zenon Hubert Nowak, S. Kujot, Hartmut Boockmann, Udo Arnold. The full list of the used sources and literature is in the footnotes.

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Akta wizytacyjne Diecezji Kamienieckiej i Łucko-Żytomierskiej (koniec XVIII-początek XX wieku) w zasobach archiwów na Ukrainie.

Author(s): Witalij Rosowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

Visitations are one of the most valuable and interesting church sources. This article attempts to present the condition of visitation records of churches and monasteries of the Diocese of Lutsk-Zhytomyr and Kamyanyets from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the archives of Ukraine. Difficult history of these lands in the last century contributed to a considerable dispersal of interesting materials, and what is worse, to irreversible destruction of some of the records. Currently, the largest number of the visitation descriptions of the mentioned dioceses are preserved in the Central State of Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv and the State Archive of Zhytomir and Khmelnytskyi Oblast, which include, among others, the fonds of the Roman-Catholic Consistory of Kamyanyets and Lutsk-Zhytomyr and the visitation records of the monasteries in the Diocese of Lutsk-Zhytomyr. The presented material showed that the oldest of the surviving visitation records of the churches and monasteries in Podolia, Volhynia and the Kiev region come from the mid-90s of the 18th century and the latest ones come from 1909.

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Wizytacje kanoniczne i dziekańskie w archidiecezji lwowskiej obrządku łacińskiego do 1939 roku.

Author(s): Mariusz Leszczyński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

One of the important duties of the rulers of a diocese was to conduct canonical visitations in parishes (visitatio canonica, visitatio pastoralis). According to the recommendations of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), suffragan bishops (assistant) were supposed to help them in this duty. Detailed standards for the canonical visitations of parishes in the 20thy century were included in the Code of Canon Law of 1917. They said, among other things, that every year the “residential” bishop should visit his diocese or part of it so that to visit at least one parish every five years. He was supposed to perform this task in person or-in case of a reasonable obstacle-by a vicar general, or by another clergyman. Bishops conducted visitation of people, things and “pious establishments”, apart from the ones which received a special exemption from the Holy See. The practice of canonical and deanery visitations in the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latin rite varied over the centuries. Regular visitations were conducted, for example by Archbishop Wacław Hieronim Sierakowski (1760-1780) and Józef Bilczewski (1900-1923). Archbishop Seweryn Tytus Morawski (1885-1900) did not conduct any visitations in person, he would entrust this task to the assistant bishop or other clergymen. Deanery visitations were closely connected with canonical ones; and they were especially important when canonical visitations were not conducted regularly. The aim of deanery and canonical visitations was to recognise the condition and the needs of the parish and to control the implementation of ecclesiastical law and other ordinances of ecclesiastical authorities.

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Początki parafii Matki Bożej Królowej Korony Polskiej w Baranowiczach poleskich na podstawie księgi inwentarzowej parafii Baranowicze z 2 maja 1938 r.

Author(s): Waldemar Żurek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

The Polish Borderland’s town Baranowicze in the county Nowogród (now Bialorus) was developing with resilience from the beginning of the 20. century. The need of a new parish church in the city saw the local bishop, as well as the believers The second parish in the city, after the 1925 founded Hole Cross Exaltation’s parish has been created 1936. It was the Mother of God Quinn’s of Poland parish. It’s pastor became fr. Antoni Kohutnicki. And soon replaced him fr. Czesław Fedorowicz. At that time has been established the Inventor’s Book which is allowing to get knowledge of the beginnings of that parish.

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Archiwum Diecezjalne w Rzeszowie. Powstanie, zasób i działalność.

Author(s): Marcin Nabożny / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

The article focuses on the establishment, fonds and activity of the Diocesan Archive in Rzeszów. The Archive in Rzeszów plays an important role. Its purpose is to protect, collect, organise, permanently store the archival materials and make them available. The Diocese of Rzeszów was established by John Paul II in his bull Totus Tuus Poloniae Populus of 25 March 1992. The Diocesian Archive in Rzeszów is a separate scientific and cultural institution established by the Bishop of Rzeszów, Kazimierz Górny. It is located at the seat of Diocesian Curia in Rzeszów at Castle Street 4. In the years 1992-1999 the Rev. Dr Stanisław Nabywaniec was responsible for organizing the Archive. In 1999 this task was assigned to the Rev. dr Andrzej Motyka, who was also appointed the Diocesan Archive Director. Soon, the statute and the rules of the Archive were formulated, the structure was established and it became the basis for organising the archival materials. The materials have been available since 2003. The article presents the role of the historical archive in the diocese, the origins of the Diocese of Rzeszów, the aims and tasks of the Diocesan Archive in Rzeszów. Then, it focuses on the statute, the rules and organization of the Archive. A significant element of the article is the collection of the Diocesan Archive in Rzeszów (the collection structure) which contains 35 fonds. The final part shows the details about church archives, where we can find archival materials relating to the current area of the Diocese of Rzeszów, which was formed from parts of the Diocese of Przemyśl and Tarnów. Previously, this area was the part of the Metropolis of Lvov and Krakow. The paper also provides the list of archives helpful to the researchers of history of the mentioned area: the Archive of the Metropolitan Curia in Krakow, the Archive of the Cathedral Chapter of Krakow, Archbishop Eugeniusz Baziak Archive, the Archdiocesan Archive of Latin Rite in Przemyśl, the Archive of the Cathedral Chapter of Przemyśl, the Archive of Cathedral Chapter of Sandomierz and the Archive of the Diocese of Tarnów. The article contains the current contact details for these institutions, directors, opening hours, and the list of guides and articles about fonds. The paper is the first comprehensive study of the Diocesan Archive in Rzeszów as it has been not presented in the previous studies of the Archives of the Catholic Church in Poland.

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Dokumentacja Wizytacji Greckokatolickich w Archiwum Obwodowym w Żytomierzu.

Author(s): Irena Wodzianowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

In the State Archive of Zhytomyr Oblast there is one of the biggest collections of the visitations of the Greek Catholic parishes in Ukraine. Visitations from the years 1717-1814 territorially include 35 deaneries of eastern territories of the former Polish Republic (now Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus). Scattered in several fonds, the visitation protocols are a record of both canonical visitations and deanery ones. This source enables to characterize socio-religious life of more than 2000 parishes. Those who inspected the parishes noted down not only the name of the parish, to what saints it was dedicated and in which year it was founded, described its appearance and salary but also provided personal details of clergymen and their families. In addition, they presented, in details, the financial security of priests-the fund, mostly in the form of fields, meadows, orchards, fish ponds and various privileges. You can also find information on the density and structure of the population, customs of parishioners, their religious life, their activity, fraternities connected with Uniate churches, schools and hospitals (treated as points of social welfare for the poor and elderly). The visitation material is an interesting source for the research not only on the changes in the deanery structure and the increase in the number of parishes, but also on the relationships between different faiths and peoples inhabiting this land.

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Wizytacje kościelne w zasobie archiwów państwowych.

Author(s): Jacek Krochmal / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

Archive material of church provenance is stored, among others, in Polish state archives. Large collection of visitations are in state archives in Lublin, Przemyśl and the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw. A large collection of Uniate visitations (Greek Catholic) stored in the State Archive of Lublin is in the fonds of Greek Catholic Consistory of Chełm (1596-1875). The fond includes directives of Uniate Bishops of Chełm on how to conduct visitations, general visitation of the diocese, visitations of deaneries and individual Uniate churches from the Diocese of Chełm (1715-1815, 1869-1870), Włodzimierz (1725-1727, 1757, 1774-1801), [Polish] Połock (1789-1790) and the Deanery of Bóbrka in the Diocese of Lviv from 1764. Historical Archive of the Orthodox and later Greek Catholic Bishopric of Przemyśl from the years 1291-1946 (the fond of the Archive of Greek Catholic Bishopric of Przemyśl) is in the State Archive in Przemyśl. There are visitations of 49 deaneries (1738-1939) and individual Uniate churches (1753-1912) from the Uniate Diocese of Przemyśl. In addition, the State Archive in Przemyśl (the fond of the Seniority of Central Galicia in Brygidau) includes visitation protocols of churches and evangelical schools from the years 1903-1910. Visitations of Roman Catholic churches and monasteries are also stored in the Central Archives of Historical Records (in the fonds of the Central Religious Authorities of Kingdom of Poland). This archive also includes the visitations of the Collegiate of Łęczyca (1810-1811), the monastery of Canons Regular in Warsaw (1767–1816), the general visitation of the Archdiocese of Warsaw (1859-1860) and visitations of the Augustian monasteries in Ciechanów, Kraków, Krasnystaw, Książ Wielki, Lublin, Orchówek, Rawa, Warsaw and Wieluń (1841-1863); and in the fond of the Orthodox Consistory of Warsaw there is a fragment of the visitation of the Orthodox Eparchy of Warsaw from 1908.

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Archiwum kościelne. Rola i znaczenie jako miejsca przechowywania dokumentów przeszłości.

Author(s): Roland Prejs / Language(s): Polish Issue: 97/2012

The article first presents the basic archival terminology, in particular “fond” and briefly explains characteristic features of chancery practices such as a self-contained document, a book of inscriptions, case files. The Church always paid a great attention to collecting and storing official documents created in connection with the implementation of evangelization and salvatory mission in the world. The collection of these documents grew bigger and larger as the literary culture became more common and the habit of documenting every activity in writing spread, which on a large scale occurred only in the Middle Ages. This is how the church archives were created, initially as repositories of documents. Archives in the modern sense, that is, academic institutions which collect documents relevant to understanding and study of the past appeared in the Polish land only at the end of the 18th century. Most of the Polish dioceses organized their archives in the interwar period and monasteries only after the Second World War. The Centre (Institute since 2006) for the Church Archives Libraries and Museums (established in 1956) together with the coorganizer of the Centre, the Rev. prof. dr hab. Stanisław Librowski, played an important role in the development of church archives in Poland.

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Archiwum parafii rzymskokatolickiej w Klimontowie

Author(s): Tomasz Dywan / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

The parish in Klimontów (Diocese of Sandomierz) has an archive, which stores various documents concerning the history of this institution. The materials from this archive were rarely used by historians. Only the ones who dealt with regional history were interested in the above mentioned materials. A parish priest from Klimontów Wawrzyniec Kukliński (1828-1912) published the content of the most important documents in the years 1909-1911. This content was the basis for writing an amateur treatise on the history of the town, where in 1626 the parish was erected. From the beginning of the twentieth century, the documentation stored at the parish church was damaged, some materials were lost. The author therefore undertook the effort to professionally organize the archival materials that are stored in the parish of Klimontów. Two fonds: Documents of the Roman Catholic Parish in Klimontów (documents since 1626) and Parish registers of Klimontów (since 1667) are connected with the parish office. These two fonds were divided into individual archival units, mainly based on chronological criteria. Apart from the materials closely related to the activities of the parish, the archive includes an incomplete collection of the documents which belonged to the monastery of the Dominicans in Klimontów. That collection was brought to the parish archive in unclear circumstances, possibly just after the dissolution of the monastery in 1901. It is a closed fond, which includes diverse documents from the years 1418-1863. It should be noted that this fold also contains a significant number of documents relating to the salaries of the parish in Olbierzowice, the patronage of which was granted to the monastery of the Dominicans under Jan Zbigniew Ossoliński’s foundation privilege of 1613.The parish archive also includes the books which are the remnants of the once prosperous parish library.

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Salezjański wotywny kościół Matki Bożej Ostrobramskiej we Lwowie. Historia i dzień dzisiejszy

Author(s): Waldemar Żurek / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

The Metropolitan Archbihop of Lviv of the Latin Rite Bolesław Twardowski (1854-1944) was the founder and the initiator of the construction of the Church of Our Lady of Ostra Brama in the district of Lviv - Górny Łyczaków. The votive church dedicated to the Mother of Mercy was to be a symbol of gratitude for the return of Lviv and Eastern Galicia to their homeland after years of captivity. Started in 1931, the construction of the church was completed and on 7 October 1934, Archbishop Twardowski consecrated it. After that ceremony, at the residence of the archbishop the votive church was given to the Salesians of the Province of St. Jack in Cracow. The Church of Our Lady of Ostra Brama was a rectoral church in the parish of St. Anthony where the Salesians carried out pastoral ministry until 4 June 1946. In 1989, the church was taken over by the Salesians of the Byzantine-Ukrainian Rite where in 1992, the parish of the Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos (Pokrov) was erected.

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Wspomnienia Bernardynki łowickiej Weroniki Kempy z okresu II wojny światowej

Author(s): Aleksander Krzysztof Sitnik / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

During World War II, the Bernardine Sisters from Łowicz were involved in intense charitable activities. In the September campaign during the Battle of Bzura, the Bernardine Sisters Convent was transformed into a hospital. Sisters organized beds for patients, underwear, bedding and food. They helped Polish officers imprisoned in Blich (the district of Łowicz) and those who waited for the deportation to Germany. They also provided assistance to the Jews from the ghetto of Łowicz. In 1944 they freed 150 children exported from Warsaw to Germany after the Warsaw Uprising and took them to the convent. There, they organized an orphanage for children who lost parents in the war. The person who was especially involved in that kind of activity was Weronika Kempa, the author of the memoirs of that time.

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Tablica upamiętniająca zamordowanych organistów diecezji lubelskiej

Author(s): Grzegorz Misiura / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

The article presents a plaque commemorating organists of the Diocese of Lublin who were murdered by the Nazis in different places and circumstances. The plaque is located in the vestibule of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Lublin. Before the war this church was the place where there was the office of the Board of the College of the Organists in the Diocese of Lublin. The article focuses on the circumstances of putting up and blessing the plaque. That was possible thanks to the efforts of the members of the Commission of Organists Affairs, attached to the Episcopal Curia in Lublin. Then the author quotes the detailed biographies of the people whose names are inscribed on the plaque, primarily taking account of their war experiences, as well as the places and dates of their service in positions of organists in individual parishes. Some biographies include discovered camp photographs and the scans of signatures from the registers. These photos complement and illustrate the written text. Doing the research for the article, the author established contact with the archives of the former Nazi concentration camps, some state archives in Poland and selected Registry Offices, where he received the appropriate materials. The article is supplemented with the information from the literature, the press and the Internet. The next part of the article presents, in a table, war experiences of the organists listed on the plaque and the analysis of this material, which results in the statistical information given by the author. The last part makes reference to the post-war organists’ memories of their murdered colleagues, which was reflected in the documentation produced by them.

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Zarys problematyki budownictwa i strat wojennych w kościołach parafialnych diecezji lubelskiej po I wojnie światowej

Author(s): Joanna Kumor-Mielnik / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

The content of this article is an introduction to a wider spectrum of the issues related to losses of life and material things the Diocese of Lublin suffered after the First World War. The article focuses on two major issues related firstly to the reconstruction of destroyed parish churches in the Diocese of Lublin in the postwar period and using for this purpose state subsidies and funds from the contributions of the parishioners; and secondly, related to the dynamics and intensity of the construction of new parish churches at that time. The rebuilding of churches and buildings connected with them was a priority in the field of renovation and construction projects after World War I. The matter of less importance was to initiate the construction of new churches, erected mainly at the expense of parishioners, rarely with the use of state subsidies. In the 1930s the movement of building parish churches intensified. It was, however, a short-lived process, interrupted by the outbreak of another war. The dynamic growth in the number of new churches, observed in a relatively short period of time was caused, among other things, by the use of cheaper and more readily available wood, which resulted in the increase in wooden churches in the interwar period. The concise characterization of building regulations in the context of the construction of parish churches in the postwar period, the same as in the case of other issues, requires further research and in-depth analysis.

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Bractwa religijne w diecezji lubelskiej w XIX wieku – stan liczbowy

Author(s): Wiesław Partyka / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

The brotherhood movement was born in the Church in the fourth century. Brotherhoods usually operated in churches and monasteries, and their aim was to strengthen the piety of the faithful through the implementation of the objectives of charitable and social activities, as well as activities connected with worship. In Poland, religious brotherhoods appeared in the thirteenth century and developed over the centuries. They flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth century and were introduced into the majority of parishes. At the end of the fourteenth century they appeared in the region of Lublin. In the period before the partitions there were 174 brotherhoods in that region. With the collapse of the Polish State religious brotherhoods also experienced a serious crisis. The Diocese of Lublin was founded in 1805. Under the new organizational structures brotherhoods continued to operate and pursue their goals. Despite a series of reprisals from the partitioners, which wanted to tightly control and even restrict the activity of brotherhoods, they effectively coped with those difficulties opposing the secularization of society. On the basis of the records of canonical visitation of the nineteenth century and the two registrations of brotherhoods in that period, it was possible to establish that in the nineteenth century in the Diocese of Lublin there were199 brotherhoods. The vast majority of brotherhoods were Marian ones – 124, of which 91 Rosary ones, 24 scapular ones and 9 others. Among other fraternities quite numerously represented were the ones dedicated to the Holy Trinity (24), St. Anna (15), Mercy (12). The number of such fraternities as Corpus Christi (3), St. Tekla (3), St. John of Nepomuk (3) Literary (2), St. Anthony (2) and Heart of Jesus (2) was small. There was also one brotherhood of Guardian Angels, one of the Holy Name of Jesus, Lovers of Crucified Jesus, Merciful Jesus (dying), St. Cross, St. Mary Magdalene, St. Barbara, St. Yvonne and St. Francis of Assisi’s belt. Some of them disappeared at the beginning of the nineteenth century, some operated continuously for a long time and others came into existence in the period under discussion. It is hoped that the issue concerning the functioning of religious brotherhoods in the nineteenth century will soon be more detailed studied, as in the case of the fraternities operating in the period before the Partitions of Poland. It is essential to better understand not only the functioning of the brotherhoods in an entirely new political situation of the Polish Church but also their impact on moral and religious renewal, and perhaps on the increase in the patriotic sentiments of wider social groups.

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Spis rzeczy będących w posiadaniu kościoła pw. św. Piotra i Pawła w Imbramowicach sporządzony dnia 25 października 1862 roku

Author(s): Beata Skrzydlewska / Language(s): Issue: 102/2014

In the Archive of the Norbertine Sisters in Imbramowice in the folder entitled The list of things donated to the church of the Norbertine Sisters in Imbramowice there is The register of all church things written on 25 October, 1862. The inventory of 1862 was drawn up when Bronisława Switanowska was the superior of the convent. The period of her reign was the time of changes for the convent in Imbramowice. At first there were no major obstacles in monastic life, and in those times of relative prosperity on 25 October, 1862 a list of things belonging to the convent was made. We learn from it that the convent church was in possession of the following church vestments: a) chasubles - 43, b) copes - 10, c) albs - 23, d) amises - 29, e) purificators - 45, f)corporals- 17 g) palls - 50 h) antependia 41. Under the goldsmithery the entry includes: a) candlesticks: silver – 22, tin – 6, wooden 51, porcelain 2, tinplated 2, metal- 6, brass - 1; b) chalices - 6, c) monstrances - 1, d) reliquaries - 4, e) a pyx 1 The register also contains a number of other items, such as carpets, surplices, etc. Paintings and sculptures are not included. This register is particularly valuable because the chronicles relating to that period were written only in 1924, therefore, they are of a retrospective type. Analyzing the inventory of 1862, it can be noticed that some things were given or done by the nuns living in a convent. The register also includes the objects that convent acquired in 1863, 1864, 1866 and 1867. Those are the inventories from the period particularly difficult for the convent. The January Uprising initiated great changes. And the year 1864 was extremely critical for Imbramowice as it was then when, after the collapse of the uprising, the convent was ordered to be close down. As the records show at that time donations also came from the Norbertine Sisters in Imbramowice. In addition, the Norbertine Sisters of Pinczów (Busk) after the liquidation of their convent brought their possession to Imbramowice in 1864. The last two registers come from the years 1866 and 1867.

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