Congregation of Missionaries of Saint Vincent de Paul

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The Missionary Congregation (also Missionaries Convention ; Latin Congregatio Missionis ) was a convention of the missionaries of St. Vincent de Paul (Vincentians, Lazarists) in Kulm (Culm, Chełmno) in Polish Prussia and West Prussia from 1676 to 1822.

history

Convent building

In 1676, the new Bishop of Culmer, Jan Malachowski, brought missionaries from St. Vincent de Paul from the convent in Warsaw to Chełmno in order to revitalize the spiritual and school life in the city. He gave them the leadership of the seminary , which had been damaged by the Swedish siege, and the city ​​school , as well as the pastoral care of the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows. In 1680 they were given the care of the Marienkirche and thus the parish of the whole city and surrounding area.

In 1692, the missionaries succeeded in converting the city school into an academic high school, taught by four professors from Kraków University . In 1752 this became an academy of the university. The missionaries also ran a printing shop, at the latest since 1764.

After the city passed to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1772, they were initially able to continue their activities, including in the Polish Duchy of Warsaw from 1807 to 1815. In 1822, the congregation was closed by the Prussian authorities.

After renovations, the district court, which is still located there today, was housed in the building complex.

organization

The missionaries of St. Vincent de Paul in Chełmno / Culm were formally subordinate to the mother house in Paris . This, for example, used the respective new superior (head) for Culm. He was also provost of St. Mary's Church and head of the seminary and the city ​​school .

The friars were responsible for pastoral care in the city, there had to be at least six chaplains each. In 1741 there were 13 friars in Culm, making it the second largest convent in Poland after the one in Warsaw. In 1773 there were nine priests, two other brothers and eight students (probably from the seminary).

In 1773 the congregation had income from a village and four farms, two breweries and windmills.

The convent building was located on the market square on Thorner Street (today ul. Toruńska 3). The seminary was also housed in it. It also owned several houses nearby, which it had received from citizens.

Personalities

Superior

  • Guillaume Desdames (Wilhelm Desdames), 1680–1685, French
  • Giovanni Antonio Fabri (Jan Antoni Fabri), 1685–1695, Italian
  • Jakub Ignacy Cyboni, 1695-1699
  • Łukasz Rochon, 1699-1718
  • Michał Walther, 1718–1725
  • Jan Jakub Mroczek, 1726-1738
  • Kazimierz Franciszek Goraczyński, 1738–1755
  • Michał Franciszek Barszczewski, 1755–1783
  • Johann Arbeiter (Jan Arbeiter), 1783–1788
  • Franciszek Skrysowski, 1788-1799
  • Szymon Franciszek Smulski, 1800-1802
  • Franz Weinreich (Franciszek Weinreich), 1802–1822, remained provost of the city until 1829

literature

  • Ulrich Müller: The city of Chełmno / Culm and the first partition of Poland. 2016. pp. 143f., 149f. (= Diss. FU Berlin 2014, pp. 172f., 179f. PDF )
  • Marian Biskup (red) .: Dzieje Chełmna, zarys monograficzny . Toruń 1987. pp. 163, 169, 193, 169

Web links

Commons : Congregation of Missionaries of Saint Vincent de Paul  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archives on the dissolution of the convention in 1822 in the State Archives in Danzig, No. APB 10/10 / 024.17 / 3634–3641 (German content)
  2. ^ Ulrich Müller: The city of Chełmno / Culm and the first partition of Poland. 2016. pp. 149f.

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 52.9 "  N , 18 ° 25 ′ 23.2"  E