Paradoxes of the Lithuanian Foundation for the Jasna Góra Monastery

• Authors: Rachuba A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

A group of Lithuanians, whose decisive majority was associated with the Sapieha faction, one of the three involved at the time in a struggle for domination in Lithuania, decided to found a 24-pound gun for the defensive Pauline monastery on Jasna Góra in Czestochowa. A source preserved in the Main Archive of Old Acts in Warsaw shows that the initiator and organiser of the undertaking was Aleksander Hilary Polubinski, the field scribe of Lithuania, and that it took place in Warsaw in the course of a parliamentary session held in 1664, which involved a court trail of Jerzy Lubomirski, the grand marshal of the Crown. This fact certainly exerted an impact on the absence of some of the foreseen donators, headed by Pawel Jan Sapieha, the leader of the faction, the voivode of Wilno and the grand hetman of Lithuania. The participants have not been established, since only certain names and titles have been listed; empty spaces had been left for the others (the author of the article attempts to guess who was taken into account), and only some of those mentioned actually provided money for the casting of the gun. The declared sums proved to be insufficient for the foundation and we cannot tell whether the project was realised in the ensuing situation. The donators were basically zealous Catholics, renowned for their participation in numerous religious foundations. The group in question, however, includes also Marcjan Aleksander Oginski, the master of the pantry of Lithuania, an adherent of the Eastern rite Church, and his wife, Marcybella, born Hlebowicz, a Catholic who originally was a Calvinist. The most paradoxical aspect of this situation was the fact that the main organiser of the donation arrived at the Jasna Gora monastery not with the gun but as a commander of the Lithuanian army, assisting royal forces in the struggle against the so-called Lubomirski mutiny. His men were defeated at the walls of the fortress and those seeking refuge in the monastery encountered closed gates and thus were captured. This event must have definitely influenced the fate of the planned votum, assuming that it was still being planned.

Keywords

EN

GUN; JASNA GÓRA MONASTERY; LITHUANIA; RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 35-42
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Rachuba A.

• A. Rachuba, Instytut Historii PAN, ul. Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31, 00-272 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04799126