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Iwo Rohweder (1698-1765) jako budowniczy kościoła i duszpasterz parafii w Łęgowie

Author(s): Zdzisław Kropidłowski / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

Iwo Rohweder was a Cistercian monk in Oliwa. He was the Prior in the monastery. Together with Jacek Rybiński, the abbot, he took an active part in major religious and political events in the Pomeranian region. He contributed greatly to raising the splendor of the monastery in its religious, cultural and economic aspect. Between 1741-1765 he devoted himself to pastoral work in St. Nicholas church in Łęgowo. Besides his parish church he also renovated the branch church in Różyny; he built new utility buildings. Rich interior decorations were to serve pastoral purposes and conversion into Roman Catholic faith. As the parish priest he called rosary and charity fraternities to life and , caring for the poor, he funded and equipped the parish poorhouse. He was so involved with the parish that it was his wish to be buried in the church, not in the monastery.

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Prace Ośrodka Archiwów Bibliotek i Muzeów Kościelnych w zakresie dokumentowania zbiorów bibliotek klasztornych

Author(s): Artur Paweł Hamryszczak / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

One of the statutory tasks of the Centre for Church Archives Libraries and Museums is to gather and organise materials of Church provenance. The most valuable materials are microfilmed and digitized in the documentary studio. So far, the most important materials from the below mentioned libraries have been microfilmed in the Centre for Church Archives Libraries and Museums: the Pauline Fathers’ library in Jasna Góra, the Cistercians’ library in Mogilno, the Carmelite Nuns’ library in Crakow, the Poor Clares’ library in Stary Sącz and Crakow, the Visitandines’ library in Crakow, the Benedictine monks’ library in Tyniec and the Benedictine nuns’ library in Przemyśl and Staniątki, the library of Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem in Miechów and the Norbertine Sisters’ library in Imbramowice. The Centre for Church Archives Libraries and Museums also organizes symposia on book collections of the Church. Reports and papers delivered in symposia are printed in a semi-annual magazine „Church Archives Libraries and Museums.” The magazine also contains the catalogues of monastic libraries and monographs on individual libraries.

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Skryptorium katedralne płockie do XVI wieku

Author(s): Patrycja Herod / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

Article presents the cathedral environment of Płock from the erection of the bishopric of Płock in 1075 until the end of the fourteenth century. The author discusses the origins of the Plock Cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The paper also focuses on the rulers of the Diocese, especially Aleksander from Malonne, Werner and Jakub from Korzkiew, which constitutes the backdrop for the characterization of the local scriptorium to the fourteenth century. The whole text is crowned with a detailed discussion of works coming from Plock, both those that survived to the present day, as well as those which did not survive World War II. Thanks to arduous research into the book collection of the Cathedral Library of Płock done before the Second World War by such people as Mathias Bersohn, Bishop Antoni Julian Nowowiejski and Adam Vetulani, the author of the article managed to make an attempt to characterise the manuscripts coming from cathedral scriptorium of Płock to the fourteenth century.

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Księgozbiór kapituły kieleckiej w świetle inwentarza z 1598 roku

Author(s): Andrzej Kwaśniewski / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

The article was based on the archival inventory of the Chapter Library of 1598 and on the surviving manuscripts and historical printed documents of the library of the Kielce Chapter. The paper consists of an analytical part and an annex, which includes the edition of the archival source – the inventory. Thanks to the fact that a large part of the manuscripts and printed documents from a historical book collection survived, appropriate titles can be found in the footnotes of the annex. In addition, surviving documents allowed to perform calculations with regard to publishing centers. Most out of the 28 incunabula came from the land of the German language. Only 4 out of the 35 sixteenth-century printed documents came from domestic production (Cracow). The dominance of German printed documents was still maintained. The analysis of the manuscripts revealed links with the area of Czech and national culture. The invention of printing led to the influx of Western authors. In 1598 the chapter library contained liturgical books: missals, breviaries, agenda, antiphonaries, graduals. The liturgical books came from the tradition of the Diocese of Cracow and show the character of the Divine Office before introducing the books of the reformed Roman liturgy. In addition to liturgical books, the Chapter library contained typical branches of theology of the time: the Bible and biblical commentaries, texts of the Fathers of the Church, law, theology, pastoral manuals and others. Comparison of manuscripts and printed documents indicates that with the invention of printing the texts of the Fathers of the Church are more numerous, which is also a hallmark of the Renaissance and modern theology. The library of the Kielce Chapter presents interests and changes in theology at the turn of the Middle Ages and modern times.

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Polskie publikacje religijne w opinii krytyki 1918-1939

Author(s): Jan Wnęk / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

The article shows how reviewers assessed religious books during the Second Polish Republic. Reviews were placed in a number of professional journals such as „Ateneum Kapłańskie” (“Sacerdotal Athenaeum”), „Kwartalnik Teologiczny Wileński” (“Vilnius Theological Quarterly”), „Miesięcznik Katechetyczny i Wychowawczy”(“Catechetical and Educational Magazine”), „Mysterium Chrysti”, „Polski Przegląd Tomistyczny”(“Polish Thomist Review”), „Przegląd Biblijny”(“Bible Review”), „Przegląd Homiletyczny” (“Homiletic Review”), „Przegląd Teologiczny” (“Theological Review”). A lot of these reviews were written by experts on religious issues. The majority of reviews were laudatory ones, praising Polish religious literature and encouraging to further work and theological studies.

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Inwentarz zespołu akt Gidle. Klasztor ojców dominikanow z lat (1479) 1615-1998

Author(s): Aleksander Litewka / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

The Dominican Monastery dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gidle near Częstochowa was founded in 1615. A small fonds of archival materials from this monastery covering the years 1615- 1998 is now stored in the Archives of the Polish Province of the Dominicans in Cracow. The fonds measures 5 linear metres. Records of this fonds were arranged and described by Aleksander Litewka in the years 2010-2011. He also prepared an inventory, including 226 archival units, grouped into 12 series. In addition, the inventory contains the information about two units of the records of category B –records of no historical value. The first series includes documents, mainly paper ones, from the years 1623- 1942. Some of them concern the organization and property of the monastery. The content of other documents relates to religious matters; establishing days of indulgence and special services by the popes and bishops, the cult of relics, production and distribution of images of Our Lady of Gidle, finally coronation of the miraculous figure, which occurred in 1923. The next two series of the Gilde Archive include issues connected with the supervision of the monastery, organizational and personal records of the monastery. Series four and five contain records presenting the attitude of the church hierarchy and the secular authorities towards the monastery in Gilde. The sixth series of documents, titled „Religious Life”, comprises records related to the cult of Our Lady of Gidle, healings thanks to Her intercession and the coronation of the figure in 1923. The seventh series of the records contains materials connected with the construction and restoration of the church and monastery in Gilde. The largest, eighth series covers property and business records and books of account. The most important and largest part here is subseries of property records, mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ninth series of the records includes materials regarding the library and subscriptions to publications taken out by the Dominicans. Another series of this fonds contains historical works and monastic chronicles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The next, eleventh series of archival materials and documents is linked with the previous one. It includes iconography and records associated with it. The last, twelfth series of the fonds concerns the records of Polish organizations connected with the monastery, created in the First World War and Polish-Soviet War in 1920.

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Początki parafii pw. Matki Bożej Królowej Polski w Wólce Niedźwiedzkiej

Author(s): Bartosz Walicki / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

Wólka Niedźwiedzka is a village of a special character among the former parishes of the Diocese of Przemysl, and now the Diocese of Rzeszów. For centuries, this village was part of the parish of Sokołów. The decision to create a branch in Wólka was made at the Synod in Chyrów in 1914. During World War I, Rev. Ignacy Kania settled in Wólka Niedźwiedzka as a deficjent. The first step on the road to erect the branch, and consequently the parish, was the creation of a separate vicariate in Sokołów ad personam. Bishop’s Ordinariate of Przemyśl appointed Rev. Ignacy Kania for this vicariate. In 1920 Wólka Niedźwiedzka was transformed into an independent branch and in 1927 into a parish with Ludwik Grabowski as its administrator. The branch, and later parish in Wolka Niedźwiedzka was situated at the junction of two poviats, Łańcut and Kolbuszowa. It also included Wólka Sokołowska, Dołęga and Budy Łańcuckie. Initially, the branch was part of the Deanery of Leżajsk, and from 1921 the newly created Deanery of Sokołów. The successive parish priests were Rev. Ignacy Kania, Rev. Antoni Kuziara and Rev. Stanislaw Fróg. The parish church was made of wood. It was transported from Wola Zarczycka in 1912. In 1913 the church was re-consecrated and dedicated to Our Lady Queen of the Polish Crown.

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Przywrócenie niepodległości Litwy i odrodzenie Kościoła katolickiego

Author(s): Alina Zajankowska / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

The article entitled Events restoring the independence of Lithuania and the rebirth of the Catholic Church shows the change in the political situation and the situation of the Church in Lithuania, which occurred after the collapse of the USSR. Rebuilding initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev changed not only the Soviet Union but also the whole world. The article primarily focuses on the new circumstances that contributed to the rebirth of Lithuanian statehood. There also appeared new conditions for religious activities of the Catholic Church. The Soviet regime ruled the private and public life over 40 years. Things that had enormous importance for Lithuania and its people were: state independence, the establishment of relations with Western Europe, the reorganization of the Church and the recognition of Lithuania as a democratic country by other states.

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Wybrane aspekty artystyczne, teologiczne I historyczne w obrazach „Alegoria Wiary” o „Adoracja Chrystusa jako Odkupiciela” z kościoła pw. św. Apostołó

Author(s): Piotr Rumanowski / Language(s): Issue: 99/2013

This paper describes two seventeenth-century paintings in St. Peter and Paul Church in Puck. The works are placed next to each other and they have the form of discs fitting into the arches of the Gothic vault of the church. The images are consistent in terms of composition and content. Allegorical paintings symbolize the significance of faith, the communion of saints and mediation in salvation. The anonymous works are creative transformation of the Gothic tradition of painting in the service of the post-tridentine Catholic Church fighting with the Reformation. The paintings are overloaded with excessive content of iconography and raise a number of issues about which the Reformation spoke critically or towards which it had a negative attitude. The images depict characters from the Bible and the Gospel. To bring people closer to the scenes on canvas, the painters included elements of familiar realities and the characters of the time. Works form Puck in terms of iconography and composition make use of the experience of artists from Gdańsk and painters working with the Cistercians and the Jesuits. Described paintings cannot be placed in a catalogue of relics as high-quality works. They refer to the paintings, which were characterized by dignity and simplicity. The value of these paintings is remarkable from theological and iconographic point of view; as it is an example of an attempt to spread counter-reformation ideas among the faithful.

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Korespondencja między kardynałem Mieczysławem Halką Ledóchowskim a księciem Adamem Stanisławem Sapiehą dotycząca stanu metropolii lwowskiej obrządku greckokatolickiego

Author(s): Sabina Bober / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

Stanisław Adam Sapieha, a Galician magnate and politician was one of the Catholic activists who were concerned about the Greek Catholic Church organizations in Galicia endangered by the Orthodox propaganda spread by some Russophile-minded Greek Catholic clergy. A significant issue was to strengthen the local episcopate and provide sound education in the seminary. Sapieha was not really confident to what extent the Holy See was aware of the situation, and so on his own initiative he observed the events taking place in the Orthodox and Greek Catholics proceedings in order to properly show those relations to the Holy See, where he was well known for his concern for the affairs of the Greek Catholics in Galicia. Sapieha repeatedly provided information for different Roman dicasteries. The following publication presents the letters between Sapieha and Cardinal Mieczysław Ledóchowski, then employed in the Roman Curia, who as the archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań, just like after settling in Rome in 1876, was vividly interested in the Greek Catholics in the Kingdom of Poland after the liquidation of the Union there in 1875. Ledóchowski, soon after the election of Pope Leo XIII (interested in ending the Kulturkampf in Prussia), was not welcomed by the Pope, because the Archbishop of Gniezno and Poznań was one of the major obstacles to an agreement between Bismarck and the Pope. He was very careful about the problems presented by Sapieha. From the correspondence published here it can be concluded that Cardinal Ledóchowski was not at that time a good mediator in the cases which Sapieha was involved with.

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Historia rozwoju katolickiej sieci parafialnej w diecezji tyraspolskiej w XIX w. na podstawie materiałów Państwowego Archiwum Obwodu Odeskiego

Author(s): Natalia Dianowa / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

The article presents the documents found in the National Archive of the Odessa District. The documents concern a network of Catholic parishes and religious life. Several fonds contain archival materials referring to churches built in Odessa and clergy encouraged to work among the German settlers, and registry books of some parishes. The last ones are a valuable source for determining social origin and the countries from which the settlers arrived. Some of the materials also concern relations with the Orthodox Church, which has a dominant position in the Russian Empire. Archival materials fill in the gaps in already known sources and publications on Catholic parishes on the south coast of the Black Sea.

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Biblioteka Opactwa św. Wojciecha Mniszek Benedyktynek w Staniątkach

Author(s): Małgorzata Dudziak-Kowalska,Barbara Janczak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

The article is devoted to the history and present state of the library of The Abbey of Benedictine Nuns in Staniątki, one of the oldest monasteries in Poland. Development of the library throughout centuries has been outlined an the contents of the book collection have been described. Special attention has been paid to the musical collections originating from XVI-XVIII cc., which currenty can be accessed by the digital library. The study is an attempt to present the isssue from a librarian’s point of view. The problems discussed in the article refl ect diffi culties and challenges that have to be faced by numerous Polish monastery libraries.

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Stare druki tzw. Karmelitana w zbiorach biblioteki klasztoru w Czernej

Author(s): Waldemar Graczyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

The monastery-hermitage of the Discalced Carmelites in Czerna, created in the seventeenth century, collected books related to the history and spirituality of the Carmelites, and the legislation of that Order from its inception. That was due to the fact that the Carmelites, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, had a significant impact on the development of Marian, patristic and ascetic spirituality. Eminent people from the circle of Carmelite feathers left behind works that today inspire the development of spiritual and mystical theology. Carmelite literature focused primarily on four thematic groups: the theology of the inner life, the controversial theology, Mariology and broadly defined preaching. Concern for the last one was clearly visible in the pastoral activities of the Discalced Carmelites from the beginning of their presence in Poland. Numerous treaties, studies, Spanish translations of mystics’ writings and sermons preserved in the library of Czerna are the sign of theological and preacher’s activity of the Carmelites. Preserved to the present day in the library of the former monastery-hermitage of Czerna, they show the signs of use over the past centuries. They served the monks, above all in the pursuit of their religious vocation, and thus deepening their spiritual lives.

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XV-XVII - wieczne druki z dawnych księgozbiorów kapitulnego i wikariuszy znajdujące się obecnie w bibliotece Bazyliki Mniejszej NMP w Wiślicy oraz inwentarz biblioteki kapituły wiślickiej z 1682 roku

Author(s): Piotr Kardyś / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

There are already several detailed studies of historical books of the collegiate of Wiślica, the authors of which, if possible, tried to reconstruct its history and the fonds, beginning with the foundation of canon group equipped with handheld liturgical books and ending with the analysis of inventories from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In this context, the library of the Chapter of Wiślica appears to be an exception in comparison with the poorly processed and identified collegiate collections. The inventory and analysis of the historical remains of the library resulted in new discoveries, allowing to complement the knowledge of the library at the collegiate of Wiślica functioning in the Old Polish period. What is especially valuable is the discovery of two incunabula, not recorded in previous studies on the library of Wiślica. Another important thing is the survival of at least 18 manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. One more valuable source located in the parish archive is the inventory of the chapter library of 1682. Also in this case, we can identify some of the existing manuscripts which were included in the previously unknown inventory.It thus turns out that, despite the plundering of the collegiate church in 1656 and later (during which the most valuable books were regularly plundered), the remains of the former chapter and vicars’ libraries remained in their place.

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Działalność wydawnicza Związku Księży Abstynentów (1903-1914)

Author(s): Izabela Krasińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

One of the aims of the Association of Teetotal Priests was to combat alcoholism by publishing relevant literature addressed to a wide audience. The first publications released by the Association appeared in 1903. The Association of Teetotal Priests published six books (brochures and books of small size) to the outbreak of the First World War. Moreover, there were dozens types of ephemeral prints, among which worth mentioning are: carol and communion pictures, postcards, appeals, pictorial and statistical charts, graphs and inserts for prayer books. Another thing worth noting is the fact that the Association of Teetotal Priests in the Archdiocese of Gniezno and Poznań also published periodicals.A number of priests from the Association were engaged in scientific, journalistic and editorial activity. Among them special mention should be drawn to: Rev. Kazimierz Niesiołowski, Rev. Józef Janiszewski, Rev. Henryk Antoni Szuman, Rev. Maksymilian Mrugas and Rev. Onufry Śpikowski.The publications of the Association were distributed mainly by the abstinence secretariats (depots) located in Poznań and Lviv. It is noteworthy that those members of the Association who paid regular fees received all publications free of charge.

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Represje wobec zakonów i zgromadzeń zakonnych metropolii lwowskiej obrządku łacińskiego w latach 1939-1950

Author(s): Mariusz Krzysztofiński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

The article presents the state of research and research postulates concerning the repression of religious orders and congregations of the Latin Rite of the Metropolis of Lviv in the years 1939-1950. It was written on the basis of a catalogue of repression which highlights personal and institutional repressions, not excluding the fact that in some cases they could appear together. In his research postulates the author notes that it is impossible to describe the history of the Church in isolation from the history of the Poles living in Borderlands. The research taking advantage, to a greater extent, of church archives - both diocesan as well as belonging to particular male and female religious orders-would be especially helpful for that purpose. Having access to archives produced by the Soviet secret service is crucial to the development of research on the history of Borderlands, the functioning of the Roman Catholic Church and repression committed against it.

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O pracach rzeźbiarskich Antoniego Popiela dla jasielskich franciszkanów

Author(s): Andrzej Laskowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

The article discusses several elements of decoration and equipment of the Franciscan church in Jasło, destroyed during the Second World War, which was designed by Michał Łużecki, an architect from Lviv. These elements were created by a known Lviv sculptor Antoni Popiel. They are stone elements of church facade decoration (the statue of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception and the bas-relief emblem of the Franciscan order) and wooden sculptures adorning the altar of the church, depicting such saints as: St. Anthony of Padua, Alphonsus and St. Francis de Sales. All were created in 1904-1905. These decorations evoke the names of the above mentioned sculptor’s collaborators from Lviv: Albrycht, a stonemason (the emblem creator); Michał Łużecki, an architect (the designer of the altar) and Tadeusz Sokulski, a woodcarver (the altar creator).Only one of Anthony Popiel’s works made for the Franciscans in Jasło survived to the present day- the statue of St. Anthony. It was originally placed in the central place in the structure of the main altar of the destroyed church. Today it is in the side chapel of the new Franciscan church, built after the war at a new site. This figure, miraculously saved from destruction, has long been worshiped in Jasło, which in 1996 led to the recognition of St. Anthony of Padua as the patron saint of the town by the Town Council in Jasło. December 27, 2014 marks exactly a century since bringing the figure to Jasło.The article draws attention to the artistic values of the preserved sculpture, comparing it with other representations of this saint of that time created in the area of influence of the artistic community of Lviv. It can be concluded that the sculpture from Jasło is the work of an artistic value, the work which is an individual interpretation of the theme proposed by the sculptor. It can also be noted that Anthony Popiel’s works from Jasło, hitherto unknown to historians of art, are an interesting complement to his artistic achievements and significant contribution to the relationships between the sculptor and other artists associated with Lviv. The article is supplemented with the copy of Anthony Popiel’s letter of January 15, 1906 to the Franciscan Provincial, Father Peregrine Haczela, containing the estimate of three figures for the main altar of the former Franciscan church in Jasło. The letter is stored in the Franciscan archive in Cracow.

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Darowizny, legaty testamentowe i inne sposoby nabywania ksiąg do biblioteki cystersów w Szczyrzycu w okresie staropolskim

Author(s): Jolanta Marszalska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

Legacies from the donors of the monastery, testamentary depositions and gifts were the main form of supply of books to the library of Szczyrzyc, both in the early days of the monastery as well as over several hundred years of its existence and operation. It was a quite common phenomenon for the vast majority of monastic libraries in the past centuries. In the light of the preserved archival material, and above all the books from the library of Szczyrzyc, it can be concluded that it was one of the most important sources of enlargement of the monastic library. This statement applies to the entire period of the functioning of this library, but especially to the beginning of its formation when the collections mainly included manuscripts and liturgical codes. On the basis of the information about provenance, it is possible to identify three groups of donors to the library of Szczyrzyc: monks (abbots and priors) from Szczyrzyc, secular clergy, representatives of other religious orders and lay people. Among the donated books are primarily theological and liturgical works as well as the collections of sermons necessary for the effective pastoral care of the parish.

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Władze komunistyczne wobec zakonów męskich na Środkowym Nadodrzu w latach 1970-1980

Author(s): Dominik Zamiatała / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

In the 1970s in the Polish People's Republic, despite declaration of co-existence of the state and the Church, the Communists continued to fight with the Church on the ideological plane and strived to weaken it and reduce its pastoral activity, and it especially referred to religious orders in Polish society. Those principles were implemented by the organs of administration and security in Środkowe Nadodrze. During that period, they tried to lead a flexible policy with regard to religious orders. According to the top-down decisions, religious authorities tried to neutralize monks from the political influence of bishops. First, they sought, and with success, to make religious orders and congregations in that area loyal to them. They did that mainly through frequent individual conversations with monks and visits to religious houses. Then they continued to implement the task of forcing the orders to respect socio-political principles and binding state laws. They systematically analysed and then provided the Office of Religious Affairs in Warsaw with the information on the overall assessment of the current attitudes and activities of religious orders in their provinces. They monitored, on a regular basis, the relationships inside religious orders and their pastoral activities. They sought to set monks at variance with the local bishop and diocesan clergy. The actions taken by local governments towards religious orders brought the desired effect. Monks complied with the state regulations concerning the Church and they were not engaged in anti-socialist activities.

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Działalność kinematograficzna i rekolekcyjna księdza Bronisława Szymańskiego

Author(s): Waldemar Witold Żurek / Language(s): Polish Issue: 103/2015

Rev. Bronislaw Szymański, a Salesian priest, following the indications of the Second Vatican Council, screened religious films in Polish parishes in the years 1965-1988. He was a complete amateur in that area. In the case of foreign films (Italian or English-speaking), it was necessary to translate the texts into Polish. Within 23 years, he presented 11 religious films in over 2.5 thousand projections, which were watched by nearly two million viewers. Those projections were performed mainly in parishes, monasteries and nunneries, seminaries, and for the communities of other faiths. Rev. Szymański was also an experienced and sought-after preacher. In the years 1959-2002 he conducted a 19 one-week retreats for the Salesians and 92 parish retreats for the faithful.

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