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This paper focuses on the micro level to highlight the educational activities of one particular female religious congregation, located in the small town of Štíty in northern Moravia. Based on written and oral sources, it maps the activities of the Dominican Sisters Convent and its Girls’ School in Štíty, from its foundation to its forced dissolution by the state. In doing so, it attempts to point out certain characteristic features of the education system of the Church administered by the congregation. It also notes the influence the Dominican Sisters had on the local population.
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Recently, in the Archives of the Polish Province of the Dominican Friars in Krakow, a photograph was found of a copperplate engraving of the tombstone of Princess Eufemia (Ofka), prioress of the Dominican Sisters’ convent in Racibórz, who died and who held a reputation for holiness on 17 January 1359. This tombstone has been in the chapel of St. Dominic in the Sisters’ church in Racibórz since at least the 17th century. It was restored in the Baroque style in 1738 in connection with the growing cultof Ofka and the efforts to get it recognised, as well as the works carried out to extend the chapel and redesign its interiors. The copper engraving was made between 1738–1741 by Georg Lichtensteger based on a drawing by Johann Adam Schöpf. Eufemia’s tomb is full of symbols that refer to her virtuous life and are grounded in her biography, which was written down in 1606 by Dominican Abraham Bzowski and later copied and modified by many other authors.
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Niedawno w Archiwum Polskiej Prowincji oo. Dominikanów w Krakowie odnaleziono fotografię miedziorytu przedstawiającego nagrobek księżniczki Eufemii (Ofki), przeoryszy klasztoru Dominikanek w Raciborzu, zmarłej w opinii świętości 17 stycznia 1359 r. Tenże nagrobek znajdował się w kaplicy św. Dominika w kościele raciborskich zakonnic przynajmniej od XVII w. Został on odrestaurowany w stylu barokowym w 1738 r. w związku z rozwijającym się kultem Ofki i podjęciem starań o jego zatwierdzenie oraz prowadzonymi pracami zmierzającymi do poszerzenia tejże kaplicy i nowej aranżacji jej wnętrza. Miedzioryt w latach 1738–1741 wykonał Georg Lichtensteger na podstawie rysunku Johanna Adama Schöpfa. Grobowiec Eufemii jest pełen symboli, które odwołują się do jej cnotliwego życia i mają uzasadnienie w jej życiorysie, który w 1606 r. napisał dominikanin Abraham Bzowski, a później kopiowało i modyfikowało wielu innych autorów.
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Eleven monasteries of the Dominican Brothers and one of the Dominican Sisters existed in the area of the Diocese of Kamyanets-Podilskyi in the first half of the 19th century. Thanks to the visitations preserved from that period, we can find out about the personal makeup, emolument of the monastery, and its book collections. The latter are the subject of this article. Their analysis is based on the visitation protocols from 1824. Documents that allow for a detailed analysis and comparison of all monasteries as far as their book collections are concerned are preserved in the National Archive of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. The source is even more important as it is the last one pertinent to all monasteries before their dissolution in 1832 (only the Dominican Sisters in Kamyanets-Podilskyi were dissolved in 1864). Based on these visitations, we managed to learn about the size of the book collections, their thematic scope, age, as well as the languages in which the books were written. The analysis led to the conclusion that Dominican libraries in Podolia were rather small. The biggest ones were in Kamyanets-Podilskyi and Letychiv, the rest of libraries fell far behind them. In the remaining libraries, homiletical and ascetic literature dominated, evidently corresponding to the preaching work of the monks. The only convent that belonged to the Order of St. Dominic also did not possess an exceptional collection. However, the negligent catalogue did not allow for a deeper analysis.
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