Jesuit Church (Krakow)
| Jesuit Church | |
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 View from the pl. św. Marii Magdaleny |
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| Construction year: | 1597 |
| Inauguration: | 1635 |
| Style elements : | Baroque |
| Client: | Catholic Church |
| Location: | 50 ° 3 '25 " N , 19 ° 56' 20" E |
| Address: | ul.Grodzka 52a Krakow Lesser Poland , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic Jesuit Church |
| Diocese : | Krakow |
The Roman Catholic Peter and Paul Church in Kraków is located at ul.Grodzka 52a and is famous for the statues of the twelve apostles .
history
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The Peter and Paul Church was built for the Jesuit order on the initiative of the priest Piotr Skarga . She was by King Sigismund III. donated. At the turn of the 16th to the 17th century, it was designed by the architect Giovanni Trevano, based on the example of the Roman Il Gesù church. It was completed in 1635 and was the first baroque building in Krakow. In the dome of the church, a so-called Foucault's pendulum was suspended, which by its deviation proves that the earth rotates. The remains of Piotr Skarga rest in the crypt under the chancel. Bishops Stanisław Smoleński and Tadeusz Pieronek rest in another crypt under the Archangel Michael Chapel . In 1960 the church was given by Pope John XXIII. the title of a minor basilica .
The original twelve mighty late Baroque apostle figures standing at the entrance were replaced by copies in the 18th century, as the originals had been completely eaten away by air pollution. In 2003 they were completely restored again after the aggressive emissions of the Krakow steelworks in Nowa Huta had almost completely destroyed them.
Web links
- Entry to Cerkiew św. Apostołów Piotra i Pawła (Church of Sts. Peter and Paul), Krąków, Małopolskie, Poland on gcatholic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ wini, mjz / gp, Adso: Ostatnia droga biskupa Tadeusza Pieronka . In: TVN24 , January 4, 2019.