„TEN KNOBLOCH , TEN CZOSNEK, CZUJEMY GO W NOSIE ”. BERNARDYNI POLSCY A REFORMACJA W XVI WIEKU
‘THIS KNOBLOCH, THIS GARLIC, WE SMELL IT WITH OUR NOSES’. POLISH BERNARDINES AND REFORMATION IN THE 16TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Polish Bernardines of 16th century were perceived, also by Protestants, as determined defenders of the faith and Catholic Church. They took up this duty quite early, starting from the 1520s. They did it by means of proven methods such as preaching, confession, liturgy, religious songs, holding offices of fund-collectors and courtly chaplains, and organising religious brotherhoods near monasteries. Owing to solid theological education and living a moral life on a proper level, there are only three Bernardines known by their names who moved to the Protestant camp. Only one monastery in Wschowa was lost in favour of Protestants. On the other hand, Bernardines took over Prussian monasteries in Lubawa, Barczewo, Nowe, Gdańsk and Toruń after the Saxon monastic St. John the Baptist’s province fell at the time of reformation. It is thanks to provincial ministers that Bernardine monasteries were protected from reformation.

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