Skamieniały chleb w oliwskim kościele. Historia kamienia i rozwój legendy
Petrified Bread. The History of the Stone in the Church in Oliwa and the Evolution of the Legend

Summary/Abstract: Over several hundred of years there was a stone inside the Cistercian Abbey in Oliwa which was believed to be petrified bread, together with a stone tablet telling of famine. The earliest information about the stone come from Simon Grunau’s chronicles (Preussische Chronik) written at the beginning of the 16th century. The legend of the transformation of the bread into stone was also detailed in his chronicles. Between the 18th and 19th centuries the stone was lost in unknown circumstances. The tablet was kept in the abbey until 1956, when it underwent restoration. Since then it has not been returned to its proper place. The legend of the petrified bread has been retold in many different versions by different authors, right up to the present day.

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