The City and the University: Father Wacław Kruszka’s Account of Lublin from His Tour of Poland in 1923 Cover Image

Miasto i uniwersytet. Lublin w relacji z podróży po Polsce ks. Wacława Kruszki w 1923 r.
The City and the University: Father Wacław Kruszka’s Account of Lublin from His Tour of Poland in 1923

Author(s): Paweł Sieradzki
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Wacław Kruszka; Lublin; Catholic University of Lublin; Polish emigration; United States of America

Summary/Abstract: In 1923, the pastor of St Adalbert’s Parish in Milwaukee, WI, Father Wacław Kruszka toured diocesan capitals in Poland while returning from Rome, where he had presented an official not to Pope Pius XI and the Roman Curia on the appointment of Polish bishops in the United States. He also come to Lublin for one day, where this renowned historian of Polish Americans visited the principal sites in the city. He also met with the bishops Ordinary Bishop Marian Fulman and Suffragan Bishop Adolf Jełowicki, asking them for opinion and assistance on a matter that had bothered Polish Catholics living in the U.S. for years. He visited the university, the castle, and the local Dominican church, and the site where the construction of the Jesuit college Bobolanum was starting. Kruszka sent his reports on his time in Poland as a correspondent for Polish-American press. He also published them as an independent book.

  • Issue Year: 21/2024
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 311-328
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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