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Zofia Łuszczkiewicz- S. Izabella siostra miłosierdzia św. Wincentego a Paulo (1898-1957)

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Wątroba SM J.

Nasza Przeszłość. Studia z dziejów Kościoła i kultury katolickiej w Polsce

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2014

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vol. 122

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Celem tego artykułu jest przybliżenie sylwetki s. Zofii Izabelii Łuszkiewicz. Pochodziła z rodziny inteligenckiej, związanej z Uniwersytetem Jagiellońskim. Po ukończeniu studiów na UJ, w 1923 roku wstąpiła do Sióstr Miłosierdzia św. Wincentego a Paulo. Formację początkową odbywała we Lwowie i w Paryżu. We Francji podjęła również naukę w wyższej szkole pielęgniarstwa. Gdy powróciła do kraju skierowano ją do pracy w szpitalu powszechnym we Lwowie. Pracowała tam jako pielęgniarka, a następnie jako dyrektorka szkoły pielęgniarskiej. Wykładała przedmioty zawodowe. Troszczyła się o wysoki poziom placówki utrzymując kontakty z wieloma ośrodkami pielęgniarstwa w Europie. Wiosną 1939 roku przebywała na wymianie naukowej w Nowym Jorku. Krótko przed wybuchem II wojny światowej powróciła do Lwowa. Będąc poszukiwana przez NKWD w przebraniu służącej udała się do Krakowa, a następnie do Zebrzydowic angażując się w pomaganie ludności cywilnej jak również w walkę niepodległościową. Brała czynny udział w ratowaniu ludności pochodzenia żydowskiego. Pod koniec okupacji pracowała jako pielęgniarka w rzeszowskim szpitalu. Współpracując z zaufanymi lekarzami prowadziła akcje pomocy partyzantom. Wspomagała działalność dobroczynną organizacji międzynarodowej UNRRA, będąc dla nich tłumaczką języka angielskiego. W 1947 roku ponownie wróciła do Zebrzydowic. 27 sierpnia 1948 roku w Wadowicach została aresztowana przez Służbę Bezpieczeństwa. Przez długi czas nie znano miejsca jej pobytu. Po dwuletnim śledztwie została początkowo skazana na karę śmierci, zamienioną na 15 lat więzienia. Pomimo bicia i maltretowania zachowała do końca niezłomną postawę. W czerwcu 1956 roku została wypuszczona na półroczny urlop zdrowotny. W grudniu 1956 dzięki staraniom bliskich została całkowicie uwolniona. Choroba poczyniła jednak ogromne spustoszenia i mimo starania siostry Izabelli nie udało się uratować. Zmarła 8 sierpnia 1957 roku. Pochowano ją na Cmentarzu Rakowickim w Grobowcu Sióstr Miłosierdzia.

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The aim of the article is to present the person of sister Zofia Izabella Łuszczkie-wicz. She came from an intellectual family, associated with the Jagiellonian Universi-ty. After having finished her studies at the University, she joined the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in 1923. Her initial formation took place in Lvov and Paris. In France she also attended a high school of nursing. Upon her return to Poland, she was directed to work in the general hospital in Lvov. She worked there as a nurse and later as the headmistress of the school of nursing and teacher of vocational sub-jects. She took care of the high level of the institution by maintaining contact with many centres of nursing in Europe. In the spring of 1939 she went to New York as a participant of academic exchange. Shortly before the breakout of World War II she returned to Lvov. Being sought by the NKVD, she went to Cracow in a disguise of a servant and later to Zebrzydowice, where she was engaged in helping civilians as well as in fight for independence. She took active part in saving people of Jewish origin. Nearing the end of the occupation, she worked as a nurse in hospital in Rzeszów. Cooperating with trusted doctors, she undertook aid actions for partisans. She assisted the charity activity of the internation-al organisation UNRRA as an interpreter of English. In 1947 she returned to Zebrzydowice. She was arrested by the Security Service in Wadowice, on August 27, 1948. For a long time her place of residence was unknown. After a two-year investigation, she was initially sentenced to death, later changed to a 15-year prison sentence. Despite being beaten and maltreated, she remained unbroken until the end. In June 1956 she was released for a six-month health leave. In December 1956 – thanks to the efforts of her family – she was fully released. However, she was devastated by illness and despite efforts she could not be saved. She died on August 8, 1957. She was buried in the tomb of Daughters of Charity at the Rakowice Cemetery.

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Szpital w Milanowie w latach 1908-1931 w świetle dokumentów z Archiwum Sióstr Miłosierdzia w Warszawie

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Szady J.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

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2013

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vol. 61

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issue 2: Historia

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The hospital in Milanów played an important role for the local community against the background of changing historical conditions of the 19th and 20th centuries, treating both patients in the hospital itself and outpatients. It was also a significant element of charity work conducted by the consecutive owners of the Milanów estate, who belonged to the Potocki, Uruski and Czetwertyński families. For most of the time the hospital employed nuns from the Order of Vincent a Paulo’s Sisters of Charity; their long work is documented by the sources kept in the Archive of their Central Home in Tamka Street. The nuns returned to the institution in 1908 after nearly 20 years of absence caused by the decision of the Czar authorities. The return of the sisters was only possible after the ukase on tolerance was published in 1905, when the Czetwertyński Princes set out to bring the nuns back to the hospital. The documents kept in the Archive of the Central Home proves that the owners of Milanów took care of the work of the hospital that was supported by the service of 3 to 5 nuns. The hospital did not stop working during the First World War, when it fulfilled the function of a field hospital for the wounded and of a base for displaced persons. Then, in the period between the World Wars, it complemented the network of state and local government hospitals. Sisters of Charity worked in Milanów till 1931, when, on the strength of an agreement with the new owner – Wanda Żółtowska, they were withdrawn from it. The building of the hospital is still inscribed in the local landscape as a medical facility, and also as a testimony of the past time and of the people supporting this important social initiative.

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Działalność charytatywna zakonów żeńskich w Polsce nowożytnej

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Surdacki M.

Archiwa, Biblioteki i Muzea Kościelne

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2015

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vol. 103

237-271

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The development of hospital services in the Polish State was associated with baptism, the development of Christianity and church organization, and above all, the arrival of religious orders. In the Middle Ages, male religious orders played a huge role in charitable activities, while in modern times female congregations dealing with charity and hospital services were of great importance in that regard. As for female religious orders in the Middle Ages, the Benedictine and Cistercian nuns were the first ones who were engaged in running hospitals and charity work, although it was not their primary mission and charisma. Sometimes hospitals were also run by the Poor Clare Sisters of the Second Franciscan Order, the Magdalene Sisters, the Bridgettine Sisters, and primarily by the Beguines, loose groups of women who were close mostly to Dominican and Franciscan churches and the rules of community life, that is the Third Order. The most important congregation, however, turned out to be the Sisters Canonesses of the Holy Spirit (duchaczki in Polish), who from the beginning of the thirteenth century run, along with the male branch of the Order, Holy Spirit hospital in Cracow, which specialized in the care of abandoned children and was the largest and the most important one in Poland until the Enlightenment. The great development of charitable female religious congregations occurred after the Council of Trent (1545-1563). Undoubtedly, the most significant of which were the Sisters of Charity (so-called szarytki in Polish) founded by St. Vincent de Paul in Paris in 1633. In Poland, they had 29 houses, where they ran hospitals, orphanages and schools for girls, including the poor. Similar activities, although at a smaller scale, were done by the Sisters of St. Catherine from Braniewo, founded in 1571 by Regina Protman. In addition, charitable activities were undertaken by the Congregation of the Virgins of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (founded in Cracow in the 1620s by Zofia Czeska), the Visitation Sisters (founded by St. Francis de Sales -1601, Geneva,) and the Mariavites founded in 1737 by Stefan Turczynowicz in Vilnius. Apart from the above mentioned orders, the work of mercy was developed, on the margins of its core mission, by most non-charitable female religious congregations existing in Poland in the period before the partitions.

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Zofia Łuszczkiewicz- S. Izabella siostra miłosierdzia św. Wincentego a Paulo (1898-1957)

Szpital w Milanowie w latach 1908-1931 w świetle dokumentów z Archiwum Sióstr Miłosierdzia w Warszawie

Działalność charytatywna zakonów żeńskich w Polsce nowożytnej