Kościół pw. św. Jakuba i Klasztor Bonifratrów w Łucku w opisie wizytacyjnym z 1832 roku
Catholic church of St James and the Monastery of the Brothers Hospitallers in Lutsk in 1832 in a visitation account

Summary/Abstract: The Brothers Hospitallers were brought to Lutsk in 1638 on the initiative of the canon priest of the chapter, Rev. Baltazar Tyszka with the support of Bishop Andrzej Gembicki. However, the church of St Mary Magdalene and the monastery built at that time did not survive the fire that struck Luck in September 1781. It was then decided that the Church of St James, erected in the 16th century, was to be handed to them in exchange for the square where the convent had been located. The document of the foundation of the donated St James’s Church is unknown. It is, however, known that it had been a parish church until it was given to the Brothers. The presented description of the church and monastery of the Brothers Hospitallers in Lutsk was drawn up in 1832 as part of a visitation by order of the Bishop of Lutsk and Zhytomyr, Michał Jan Piwnicki, and was written down by the canon of the Cathedral of Lutsk, Michał Sylwestrowicz. The source manuscript is currently stored in the State Archive of Zhytomyr Oblast in Zhytomyr under the reference number: fond. 90, op. 1, sp. 1011. The text is written in Polish. The writing is legible, regular and careful, without deletions or corrections. The act of visitation consists of 16 pages. The edition of the text was carried out according to the rules of the publishing instruction for historical sources from the 16th to mid-19th century by Kazimierz Lepszy, published in 1953 in Warsaw.

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