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BRACTWO ŚWIĘTEGO MIKOŁAJA W PRZEMYŚLU. GENEZA I FUNKCJE OD MOMENTU POWSTANIA DO CZASÓW WSPÓŁCZESNYCH

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Białoń A.

Rocznik Przemyski

2015

vol. 51

issue 3(18): Historia

61-78

Ever since the Middle Ages in the Eastern Church in Poland the main task of the Orthodox brotherhoods was taking care of hospitals. There were also plenty of brotherhoods performing various religious and social functions. But among the obligations of almost each brotherhood was some kind of charitable activity. Due to the traditionally strong secular factor in the life of the Eastern Churches, the brotherhoods played a significant religious and social role. They catered both for the needs of their own members and the whole community of the faithful. After the Union of Brest the Uniate brotherhoods were becoming increasingly similar in their structure and responsibilities to Roman Catholic brotherhoods, also conducting charitable activity in parishes. An important aspect was financial support of poor young students. That kind of charity work, although performed earlier as well, developed particularly in the 19th century. The brotherhoods ran boarding houses for students and supported the poorest of them. The brotherhoods which took care of the youth operated mainly in bigger cities with various types of schools. An example is the Brotherhood of Saint Nicholas in Przemyśl, one of the oldest such organizations in the whole diocese. Even during the Galicia period the Przemyśl Brotherhood, already a statutory society, had provided financial support to students. It helped poor youths until the Second World War. This article presents the development and evolution of goals of the Brotherhood of Saint Nicholas from medieval times to the Galician era and the interwar period. Presented in this way, the history of that confraternity is an excellent example of how the forms and kinds of charity work in the Greek Catholic Church in Poland changed through the ages.

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Surdacki M.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

2013

vol. 61

issue 2: Historia

249-271

Charitable work in the Orthodox Church on the territories of the Republic of Poland was carried on mainly on the basis of Orthodox brotherhoods set up as institutions affiliated to churches or monasteries. The brotherhoods were established on a larger scale from the beginning of the 16th century in towns situated on the Eastern lands of the Polish-Lithuanian state. Members of the brotherhoods were called „brothers of mercy”, as they practiced „mercy and pious deeds”. The brotherhoods established and maintained hospitals for the poor, they organized aid for the sick and old, gave away alms, took care of funerals, organized relief and loan associations, pupils' dormitories, and a variety of charitable funds. The most intensive development of the Orthodox brotherhoods fell on the end of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries. In the 18th century apart from the brotherhoods already working, Uniate confraternities were affiliated to Orthodox churches. They were modeled after Orthodox associations also conducting charitable work, albeit to a lesser degree. Besides brotherhoods social care was conducted in the Orthodox Church on the basis of hospitals–shelters. Ruthenian shelters were established in bigger towns that were centers of Ruthenian settlement movement, and at the same time of the work of Orthodox brotherhoods that controlled them. After the Brest Union of 1596 also the Uniate Church established its shelters. Moreover, in the Eastern Church charitable work was also conducted by monks in monasteries (Basilian monks), establishing hospitals at their monasteries, or giving away alms at the monastery gates. In Lvov and Zamość also believers of the Armenian rite had their hospitals.

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BRACTWO ŚWIĘTEGO MIKOŁAJA W PRZEMYŚLU. GENEZA I FUNKCJE OD MOMENTU POWSTANIA DO CZASÓW WSPÓŁCZESNYCH

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