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“School had the rank of a shrine.” Fr. Mieczysław Brzozowski’s Reminiscences of His Youth, as seen in the Perspective of His Peers’ Experience: An Oral History Based Study

Summary/Abstract: The late Fr. Mieczysław Brzozowski was a popular and greatly respected personality among members of the Lublin academic circles and those who had the opportunity to know him as a Catholic priest, which is evident from the vivid and cordial commemorative texts. The present article in a way complements Fr. Brzozowski’s last paper, published, incidentally, in the journal Ethos in 1991. Based on the testimonies of his peers recorded by means of the method of oral history, the author reconstructs the realities of Stefan Żeromski High School Mieczysław Brzozowski attended, and the town of Jelenia Góra of the late 1940’s, focusing on the profi les of the persons who infl uenced the future priest’s spiritual choice. Owing to the broader perspective thus attained one may comprehend the background of Fr. Mieczysław Brzozowski’s later patriotic commitment to his homeland, as well as his special sensibility seen in his attitude to others. The value of the oral history approach used throughout the paper lies in that it helps the readers grasp the climate of the events from seventy years ago, which are now very difficult to reconstruct on the basis of the testimonies of those who actually witnessed them.

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