Dietrichswald apparitions of the Virgin Mary

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Pilgrimage Church of St. Mary in Dietrichswalde

During the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Dietrichswald , 13-year-old Justyna Szafrynski and 12-year-old Barbara Samulowski reported that they lived in Dietrichswalde (today Gietrzwałd in Olsztyński powiat in the Polish Warmian-Masurian voivodeship ) from June 27 to September 16, 1877 the Virgin Mary appeared several times . In contrast to the Marpingen apparitions of the Virgin Mary , which took place almost simultaneously , the Prussian authorities reacted with restraint.

Background: Confession and language in the 19th century

Dietrichswalde is located in Warmia , which in the 19th century was a purely Catholic enclave in the otherwise Protestant East Prussia . In Dietrichswalde there lived not only Germans and Masurians but also Polish-speaking Prussians.

The events

When the two girls reported about the apparitions for the first time in June 1877, the responsible district administrator of Allenstein reacted with significantly greater caution than had been the case with his Saarland colleagues, where on July 13, 1876 the singing and praying crowd of pilgrims had been dispersed with the help of the military. The district administrator visited the village accompanied by only two gendarmes . He also had the place of the apparition cordoned off. But the 13,000 pilgrims who nonetheless showed up in Dietrichswalde in August 1877 were only observed by a single gendarme. In the summer of 1877 up to 2,000 pilgrims came daily.

The two girls got caught in the culture war that was prevailing at the time and were first brought to safety in Heilsberg Monastery . They later joined the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in Kulm on the Vistula . Barbara Samulowska was a nun all her life and died in Guatemala in 1950 . Justyne Szafrynska lived in the monastery for 20 years (1877–1897) and then did not renew her vows. She married Raymond Etienne Bigot on December 27, 1899 in Paris, France, and there is evidence that she lived in Malakoff , a suburb of Paris, until 1904 . After that there is no trace of her. The statement that she is said to have lived in Westphalia is questionable and there is no evidence of this.

Pilgrimage church

The Sanctuary in Dietrichswalde was in the years from 1878 to 1884 from Paderborn Cathedral and Diocesan architect Arnold Güldenpfennig in the Gothic Revival style built. The church was built in 1970 by Pope Paul VI. raised to the minor basilica .

literature

in order of appearance

  • Franz Hipler : The apparitions in Dittrichswalde presented to the Catholic people according to official reports. With the permission of the Most Revered Bishop of Warmia , Warmia newspaper and publishing house printing, Braunsberg 1877.
    • 2nd edition under the title: Apparitions in Dietrichswalde. Represented for the Catholic people according to official reports . Volksblatt print shop, Allenstein 1924.
    • New edition, published by AB Bergen, under the title: The apparitions in Dietrichswalde. After Pastor F. Hippler (1877) . In: Heimatjahrbuch der Kreisgemeinschaft Allenstein-Land e. V. , Volume 36, 2005, pp. 191-201.
  • Leon Niborski: A new marpingen in the province of Prussia. or: The events in Dietrichswalde, written for all thinkers . Strzeczek, Löbau 1877.
  • Antonio Pellicani: Apparizioni di Maria Santissima a Dietrichswalde . Collegio degli artigianelli, Turin 1878 (Italian).
  • Bernd Napolowski: The apparitions of Dietrichswalde. The pastor, the girls and the Immaculata. A biblically oriented attempt to interpret the apparitions in Dietrichswalde . In: Heimatjahrbuch der Kreisgemeinschaft Allenstein-Land e. V. , Volume 30, 1999, pp. 46-48.
  • Hubert Orłowski : Rzecz o dobrach symbolicznych. Gietrzwałd 1877 . Borussia Foundation , Olsztyn 2003, ISBN 83-89233-21-5 .
  • Ulrich Fox : Bishop Philipp Krementz and the apparitions in Dietrichswalde in 1877. To a publication by Hubert Orłowski . In: Our Ermländische Heimat , vol. 52 (2006), issue 2 (Pentecost), pp. V – VII.
  • Swetlana Fink: Dietrichswalde: The East Prussian Marpingen? The Marian apparitions in comparison . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands (ZGAE), ISSN  0342-3344 , Volume 59, 2015, pp. 3–30.
  • Hubert Orłowski: Dietrichswalde - a place of remembrance? . In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands (ZGAE), Volume 59, 2015, pp. 49–56.
  • Alois Bulitta : The place of grace Dietrichswalde. In: Leo - A Sunday paper for the Catholic people , born in 1927, No. 33, p. 492.
  • RK: At the Madonna von Dietrichswalde . In: The Gazebo . Volume 2, 1878, pp. 29–30 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Blackbourn : Marpingen - The German Lourdes in the Bismarck time (= historical contributions of the Saarbrücken Landesarchiv , Volume 6). Association for the Promotion of the State Archives, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-9808556-8-6 , p. 298.
  2. ↑ Reinhard Hauf: The Prussian administration of the government district of Königsberg 1871-1920 (= studies on the history of Prussia , volume 31). Grote, Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-7745-6447-7 , p. 128.
  3. ↑ nasza-arka.pl
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