Wokół lektury pieśni o Matce Bożej Kodeńskiej
Reading the song of Our Lady of Kodeń

Author(s): Jolanta Sawicka‑Jurek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The book Serdeczne do Boga Matki Jego… westchnienia… was sent to print by Albrycht Staw‑ski in 1724. It has a form of a prayer book. Among other texts, it consists of three songs and sixprayers written in prose connected with the cult of Our Lady of Kodeń. The aim of the research workon this very book was to analyse its publishing frames, historical circumstances and spirituality ofthe environment in which it was created. An interesting issue related to the song of Our Lady ofKodeń is also researching its links with the preacher’s literature of the Saxon times, and definingthe functions of stylistic devices characteristic of the Baroque poetry on the topic of Mary and roleof biblical references. One should also pay attention to the contribution of Jan Fryderyk Sapieha,a great Lithuanian chancellor to the popularization of the cult of the image of Our Lady from thesanctuary in Kodeń, which became an important pilgrimage place for the Catholic, Unite Church,and Orhodox ones. Thanks to his attempts, the coronation of this famous gracious painting (asthe third Marian painting in Polish territory at that time). He is also an author of books publishedunder a different name, containing a vivid story of the transportation (a theft by Mikołaj Sapiehato be more specific) of the painting of Gregorian Madonna di Guadalupe from Rome to Kodeń inthe 17th century. In the light of the historical facts, revealed in works by contemporary historians,the very story seems just a beautiful legend and great mystification. Still, however, it fascinates ina masterpiece way because of its historio‑religious colouring of the epoch, and a skillfully gradeddramatization of action.

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