Św. Męczennicy Marii – wieczny spoczynek, pamięć i modlitwa

• Authors: Jerzy Uścinowicz

Title variants

EN

St. Martyrs of Mary – Eternal Rest, Memory and Prayer

Abstracts

EN

In 2018, members of the social community „Our memory” and the Belarusian Historical Society in Białystok, after many years of searching, found in the village cemetery of the Orthodox parish of St. St. Peter and Paul in Malesze, the remains of the destroyed and forgotten grave of Maria Pietruczuk. In 2020, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church included her among the Martyred Saints of Chełm and Podlasie. She is the Saint of the Orthodox Church. The article presents the ideological, theological, architectural and iconographic premises and conditionings for creating the design of a new monument to St. Martyrs of Mary. The aim is to provide a worthy form of Her eternal rest, memory and prayer of the faithful. The idea of building the monument and its design were blessed by His Eminence Sawa, the Orthodox Metropolitan of Warsaw and the whole of Poland. The form of the monument refers to the temple open to the heavens. It is a system of 4 symbolic forms: a cross, an altar apse, a sarcophagus and a ambona-analogion, symbolically representing: Golgotha, the Tomb of Resurrection of the Jesus Christ and the Mary Mother of God (hierathejon), a reliquary and the stone moved away from the Tomb and Cenacle. The sequential juxtaposition of these forms and their theological and cosmological meaning tries to strengthen the spirit of this place. It builds a synthetic symbolic image of the cemetery temple in search of its path of the faithful’s eternal pilgrimage to salvation.

Keywords

PL

Święta Męczennica prawosławna; pomnik; krzyż; grota; kamień; architektura; sarkofag; ikona; pamięć; modlitwa

EN

Martyred Orthodox Saint; monument; cross; grotto; stone; architecture; sarcophagus; icon; memory; prayer

• Publisher: Akademia Supraska
• Journal: Latopisy Akademii Supraskiej
• Year: 2020
• Volume: Dzieci w kulturze duchowej Prawosławia
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 301-319

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Jerzy Uścinowicz

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2169982