In Warmia in some places of pagan worship quite early churches were built. Some places pagan, and especially revered by the Prussians lime groves and limes were later adopted by the Church. Typically, there developed the cult of the Virgin Mary. This transformation took place among others in the wita Lipka at least since the fifteenth century. In addition Warmia same example can be Lipa under Lubawa. As is clear from the visit carried out in the years 1667–1672, in the Meadows near Bratian was a cult place dedicated to the goddess Majumy. Prussians returning from pilgrimage to Meadows stopped also in the lime grove near Lubawa, where they rested and celebrated religious rites. Nowadays there is the Shrine of Our Lady of Leipzig. Among the ancient pagan places of worship in the area of Warmia bishop draws attention to the fact that Christianity rarely took over Water features such as lakes and rivers. The church was built by the lake Dywickie – Dewithen in 1366.
Dominion Warmia during the reign of bishop Christopher Szembeka was inhabited by about 90 000 people. Most of them were peasant population, less than 25% were burghers a small fraction of Warmian nobility. This article shows how the state of the diocese presented in the light of the visits of churches, performed in the difficult times of after the Great Northern War. Visits general bishop Krzysztof Szembek Warmians appeared as decent Catholics attending church services generally abiding by the Ten Commandments. Of course, the bishop had commented on the maintenance of churches, farmhouses and rectory but generally the picture draws a positive.
In the first half of the nineteenth century maintained in areas of historical Warmia principle of territorial affiliation of the parish, or assignment to a parish people who inhabited it. It also affected the inhabitants of another religion, as long as members of the Church did not have a minority in a given place of the parish. This applied mainly to the evangelicals, who passed providing for the Catholic Church. Records of commitments material terms of the churches of this denomination also came to the decrees of erectile evangelical parish. Individual towns of Warmia participated in the financing creational implemented Catholic parishes, and also aided Catholic schools, based on the taxation of citizens regardless of their confession. Catholic clergy levying tithes from evangelical population. Thanks to the intervention of state authorities, in the late twenties of the nineteenth century, most Protestant landowners accused the habit of offering so-called. small Christmas carols for Catholic priests and church workers.
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