DZIAŁALNOŚĆ EDUKACYJNO – WYCHOWAWCZA SIÓSTR MISJONAREK ŚW. RODZINY W SŁONIMIE (LATA 1927 – 1942)
The Educational and pedagogical activity of Sisters of Mission in the name of Holy Family in 1927 – 1945 in Slonim, Belarus

Summary/Abstract: SummaryAn article is introducing the educational and pedagogical mission of the Polish Catholic monks named The sisters of the Mission in the name of Holy Family. The main direction of author’s research was to concentrate on the ecumenical and educational aspects of monks’ work on the eastern border of Poland before II World War. Nowadays, Slonim is the territory of the Republic of Belarus. The specific ethnic, cultural and religious cli-mate of this region before II Word War was a good marker of ideological charizma for that order. There are lot of homeless young women, who were grown up thanks monks’ hospitality, education and love, who stand good wives and mothers nowadays. In sisters’ schools they was saved, educated and given a ticket to the best live. What’s the most important, the Catholic Sisters respected all kinds of religious and cultural identity at work with both orthodox and Jewish children. Many of them, in effect of the educa-tion, became Eastern Catholic. The sisters of the Mission in the name of Holy Family, both with Jesuits from Albertin parish near Slonim, ruled the idea of union. The II World War and the Soviet invasion of Poland in Sep-tember 1939 was ruined their near twenty-year activity.

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