{"id":45,"date":"2006-05-04T00:05:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-04T07:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/04\/the-church-in-dubiecko-and-what-i-found-there\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T06:56:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T13:56:39","slug":"the-church-in-dubiecko-and-what-i-found-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/45","title":{"rendered":"The Church in Dubiecko and What I Found There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday, I showed how to find the parish church for a town in Poland by using a gazettee.  Two other gazetteers that cover Galicia are the Skorowidz Miejscowo\u015bci Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej<\/a><\/em> (Index of Place Names of the Republic of Poland) and the Genealogical Gazetteer of Galicia<\/em> by Brian J. Lenius. There are others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be honest, I didn’t need to consult a gazetteer to find out the parish for Nienadowa was in Dubiecko.  My Uncle Joseph and his wife Helen had been there during Communist times and their son Joe sent me copies of some postcards on which the pastor of the Dubiecko parish had written some information.  In the year 2000, I visited Dubiecko and Nienadowa with two friends of mine to see what I could find.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Dubiecko<\/a>
Dubiecko Church Exterior<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\"Dubiecko<\/a>
Dubiecko Church Interior<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Upon arriving at the parish church (Parafia Rzymskokatolicka pw. Niepokalangeo Serca NMP w Dubiecko – Roman Catholic Parish of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dubiecko) just before noon, we found the church all locked up except for the foyer in the back of the church.\u00a0 We looked through the windows into the church and saw a History of the Church hanging on one wall. <\/p>\n\n\n

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\"History<\/a>
History of the Church in Dubiecko<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Translated into English, the history reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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History of the Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piotr Kmita, governor of Lubelski, founded the first church in Dubiecko. Construction was completed about 1407 and the church was located in the place currently known as Castle Park  Kmita also funded and constructed the second church in Dubiecko named Holy Spirit. At the beginning of the 16th century Stanislaw Stadnicki of the Lutheran faith, took both Churches from the Catholic community.  Andrzej Stadnicki, Stanislaw’s son, returned them 40 years later. Jerzy Krasicki demolished the churches and all buildings belonging to the church. Catholics practiced their religion in a small chapel located in the same place as the current church, which grew with time and served for 130 years until 1926.  Father Marcin Karakulski started to collect funds to build a new church.  In 1934, Father Gornicki began construction of the new church. After he died, construction was continued by Father Pawlikiewich and Father Jedziniak, and stopped when walls reached half the height of the windows.  From 1939-1948 construction was halted due to World War II.  Construction was resumed and was finished four years later in 1952 by Father Kazimierz Lisowicz.  On August 24, 1952, his Excellency F. Barda consecrated the new church and assigned the name Sacred Heart of Holy Mary and Holy Apostles Simon and Judas Thaddeus.  The church is 49 meters long and 41 meters wide in the shape of a cross.  The architect Tadeusz Pisiewicz from Lwow designed the Church. The interior painting was designed and executed by Prof. Stanislaw Jakubczyk from Krakow.  Father J. Mucha designed the site of the altar in the church.  His Excellency Bishop Ignacy Tokarczuk consecrated the 38 pipe Organ made by the Theodor Bochme Company.  His Excellency Bishop St. Jakiel consecrated the new altar made of murmur and placed there relics of Saint Mary Goretti.  Barbara Borkowska from the Art Academy of Krakow designed the altar and presbytery.  Dr. Tyhcik, originally from Dubiecko and now Adjunct Professor with the Art Academy in Krakow, decorated the interior in collaboration with the art committee of Kuri Metropolitan in Krakow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

At noon, just as we were leaving, a nun arrived to ring the church bells and say the Angelus<\/em>.  She graciously let us into the church so we could take pictures and she spent some time telling us about the church.  Unfortunately, none of us could speak Polish well enough to understand what she said, but I did get her description on video tape!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We walked out back to the rectory, but nobody answered the bell.  Since a mass was scheduled at 4 PM that day, we decided to return at that time to see if the parish still held the historical registers of baptisms, marriages, and deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning at 4 PM, we found the pastor of the church at the rectory.  He brought out several volumes of the church registers, but he told us that many Americans ask to find their ancestors in the registers, but no one ever finds anything.  Moreover, he said, some of the registers were missing and he didn’t know where they were.  Nonetheless, he spent several hours with us, going through the registers, looking for documentation of my ancestors.  In the time we were there, we found the record of the marriage of my great-grandfather Jak\u00f3b Da\u0144ko to his second wife, Zofia G\u0142owacz.  My great-grandmother, Agnieszka Sowa, had died after a fall when she was picking cherries, and my great-grandfather needed some help raising all the children.  The record of the Da\u0144ko-G\u0142owacz Marriage<\/a> shows that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Jakub Da\u0144ko and Zofia G\u0142owacz were married on 3 September 1896<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Jakub was a Catholic, was 53 years old, and was a farmer<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Jakub\u00a0was born in Nienadowa and he resided in house number 207 in Nienadowa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Jakub was the son of Pawel Da\u0144ko and Zofia Szyma\u0144ska<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Jakub was a widow and his first wife was Agnieszka Sowa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Zofia G\u0142owacz was Catholic, was 26 1\/2 years old, and this was her first marriage<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Zofia was born in and resided in Nienadowa<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Zofia was the daughter of Jan G\u0142owacz (a farmer) and Marianna Szyma\u0144ska<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. The witnesses to the marriage were Jakub Sowa (a farmer) and Marcin Pilch (a farmer)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. Banns of marriage were read on August 15, August 16, and August 23, 1896<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Reverend Tomasz Rapmowski officiated<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The document was written in Latin and in the columnar style typical of Galicia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Copyright \u00a9 2006-2023 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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