{"id":429,"date":"2006-07-29T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T22:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/braciejowice-and-the-parishes-to-which-it-belonged\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:57:17","slug":"braciejowice-and-the-parishes-to-which-it-belonged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/429","title":{"rendered":"Braciejowice and the Parishes to Which it Belonged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Braciejowice\">Braciejowice<\/a>, the ancestral village of the Markiewicz family is located in eastern Poland in Gmina \u0141aziska, Opole LubelskiePowiat, Lublin Voivodeship .\u00a0 In a <a title=\"previous post\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/26\/braciejwice-the-ancestral-village-of-stanislaw-markiewicz\/\">previous post<\/a>, I translated the entries for Braciejowice from the S\u0142ownik Geograficny which described the place as a village and grange (a grange is a large farmstead associated with a manor) between two arms of the Vistula River .\u00a0 At one time, the village belonged to the Benedictine Monks.<\/p>\n<p>The descriptions in the S\u0142ownik Geograficny also mention that in 1569 the village belonged to the Roman Catholic parish in Solec (currently Solec is called Solec nad Wis\u0142a &#8211; Solec on the Vistula), and that in 1880 it belonged to the parish in Piotrawin .\u00a0 Today,\u00a0Braciejowice belongs to the\u00c2\u00a0Zag\u0142oba parish, in the\u00c2\u00a0Opolski Deaconate, in the Lubelski Archdiocese .\u00a0 The current churches in Piotrawin, and Zag\u0142oba are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Piotrawin_(powiat_opolski)\">Piotrawin<\/a> &#8211; \u015bw. Tomasza Aposto\u0142a i \u015bw. Stanis\u0142awa BM (Saint Thomas the Apostle and Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zag%C5%82oba_(wojew%C3%B3dztwo_lubelskie)\">Zag\u0142oba<\/a> &#8211; NMP Kr\u00f3lowej Polski (Our Lady, Queen of Poland)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could not find information on any existing church in Solec nad Wis\u0142a but, according to Lidia M\u00ed\u00bcllerowa&#8217;s book <em>Roman Catholic Parishes in the Polish People&#8217;s Republic in 1984<\/em> (Polish Genealogical Society of America, Chicago, 1995), there was a church there in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Further information about the parishes in Piotrawin and Zag\u0142oba, including the names of the priests and the address and phone number is available online in Polish .\u00a0 The parish in Piotrawin maintains a chapel in Braciejowice itself .\u00a0 Information on the architecture of the churches in Piotrawin and Zag\u0142oba is also available online in Polish.<\/p>\n<p>The name Braciejowice comes from the Polish word for brother &#8211; <em>brat<\/em> .\u00a0 In fact, it seems that the Locative form of the word is used &#8211; <em>bracie<\/em>, which is a form specific for location .\u00a0 The name Piotrawin seems to come from the Polish proper name for Peter &#8211; <em>Piotr<\/em> .\u00a0 Other villages in the region also seem to be derived from proper names:\u00a0 J\u00f3zef\u00f3w from Joseph &#8211; <em>J\u00f3zef<\/em>, Wandalin from Wanda &#8211; <em>Wanda<\/em>, Kazimierz Dolny from Casimir &#8211; <em>Kazimierz<\/em>, Helen\u00f3wka from Helen &#8211; <em>Helena<\/em>, <em>Wojciech\u00f3w<\/em> from Adalbert, Albert, or George &#8211; <em>Wojciech<\/em>, Piotrk\u00f3w from Peter &#8211; <em>Piotr<\/em>, Paulin\u00f3w from Pauline &#8211; <em>Paulina .\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Relatively little information on Braciejowice or Piotrawin is available online, but rootsweb provides some information on these villages on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~pollubel\/popol\/popol4l5.html\">\u0141aziska Gmina Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Lubelfind, Braciejowice is described as<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00c2\u00a0village on a country road in an area devoted solely to orchards .\u00a0 The land is flat .\u00a0 There is a gully on the western side of the village, parallel to the road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Lubelfind, Piotrawin is described as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A village on the east bank of the river Wisla, on minor highway 825 .\u00a0 The land to the east rises slowly and is\u00c2\u00a0open arable fields .\u00a0 To the south there are some orchards .\u00a0 There is a 14th century brick Gothic parish church here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lubelfind also mentions a cemetery at the north end of Piotrawin, almost opposite the chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow:\u00a0 Photographs from the nearby village of Kazimierz Dolny<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. 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