Presence and Formation of Adults in the Sodality of Our Lady: Contribution to the Native History Cover Image

Presence and Formation of Adults in the Sodality of Our Lady: Contribution to the Native History
Presence and Formation of Adults in the Sodality of Our Lady: Contribution to the Native History

Author(s): Justyna Sprutta
Subject(s): History of Church(es), Adult Education, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Sodality of Our Lady; Christian Life Community; adults; formation; history;

Summary/Abstract: The Christian Life Community is the successor of the Sodality of Our Lady. The Christian Life Community today is mostly made up of adults. They are formed spiritually and morally. This formation had already existed since the beginning in the Sodality of Our Lady, that is since the foundation of the first Sodality of Our Lady by the Jesuit John Leunis in 1563 at the Collegium Romanum. The adults who co-created the Sodality of Our Lady until the 18th century were kings, aristocrats, bishops, nobles, townsmen, craftsmen, servants, but the presence of adults most fully developed after the reactivation of the Society of Jesus (1814). The indications presented in the Guide by the Jesuit Jan Rostworowski have shaped the characters and attitudes of the adult mem- bers of the Marian Sodalities for centuries.

  • Issue Year: 37/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-173
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: English