Augustin Dobrowolski

Augustin Dobrowolski (* around 1600; † August 15, 1665 in Schwiebus ) was a Polish Roman Catholic clergyman, theologian, Cistercian , prior and author of the Baroque .

life and work

Augustin (Latin: Augustinus ; Polish: Augustyn ) Dobrowolski was prior of the Cistercian monastery Paradise and administrator of the abbey estates from 1642 until his death . He was procurator of the Polish Cistercian Congregation in Rome, where in 1647 one of his books was published (which he signed as Prior of Paradise).

Side by side with the Jesuits Mikołaj Łęczycki (1574–1653) and Kasper Drużbicki (1590–1662), Dobrowolski was an important author of the Polish Counter-Reformation in the Baroque era. His prayer book Paradisus Eucharisticus (for mass, for the saints, for the Mother of God) with explanations and handouts for the priests was particularly influential .

Works

• Septem sacrae phialae coronatae , seu septem praxes septem altaria privilegiata visitandi septemplici B. Mariae Virginis coronae accomodatae septem Almae Urbis celeberrimarum indulgentiis in fronte signatae ... denique coronam Jesu Christi Salvatoris augmentation texendiax quadruplici. Rome 1647. (Dedication to Cardinal Gaspare Mattei, 1598–1650)
• Paradisus Eucharisticus in paradiso mariano sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis plantatus. Lublin 1652.
• Semina Paradisi Florigera Collecta Pro Thermis Animarvm Exædificatis. Thermae animarum ex floribus seminun paradisi deductae et pro caelesti paradiso sese exercentibus exaedificatae. Poznan 1664.

literature

• Camille Hontoir (1876-1958): Dobrowolski (Augustin) . In: Dictionnaire de spiritualité , Volume 3, Column 1461.
• Eugène Manning : Dobrouolski (Augustin) . In: Dictionnaire des auteurs cisterciens . Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy de Rochefort, Rochefort, Belgium, 1975-1978, p. 214.

Web links

• Information on Augustin Dobrowolski in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
• Short biography , Polish