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Z przeszłości miejscowości i parafii Jaworzno k. Wielunia. Materiały z konferencji naukowej nt. jubileuszu stulecia wznowienia parafii

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Year 2019 marks the first anniversary of the renewal of the Most Holy Trinity Parish in Jaworzno near the town of Wieluń. This event was celebrated both by inhabitants and clergy on 15–16 June 2019. On that occasion, on Saturday on the 15th of June, a historical conference entitled “The Jubilee of the 100 years of the Most Holy Trinity Parish in Jaworzno near the town of Wieluń” was held. The conference led to produce the historical monograph of the Parish. Six people in eleven papers and memoirs dealt with the historical issues of the Parish in Jaworzno. The first paper presentation by Rev. Prof. Dr. Hab. Jan Związek leads the reader to the earliest days of Christianity on the territory of Ruda, later known as the territory of Wieluń. The author shows a number of medieval transport routes thanks to which Christianity reached these territories. The Christian faith probably reached Jaworzno, as well as to the whole territory of Ruda, from the castellany of Ruda in which there were a few clerics. They visited surrounding towns and they preached their faith there. Later, they built the churches and they gave service there. The next author, Rev. Dr. Hab. Sławomir Zabraniak, the professor at the University of Rzeszów, shows the church issues of Jaworzno in the 17th a nd 18th century, considering the proven beginning of the Parish in 1453, its fall around 1511 and the socio-economic situation of the inhabitants of Jaworzno. The article emphasises the inf luence of the Warszszycki family on the development of the Heavenly Mother devotion in the local church through the establishment of the Confraternity of the Holy Scapular. Rev. Dr. Kamil Kęsik in two of his articles covers the period from year 1800 to 1939. It was an extremely turbulent period in the history of the town of Jaworzno. Local patronizing families, (collator families whose obligation was to take care of the church and its clerics, provide for them), such as families of Poniński, Mirowski, Suchecki, Taczanowski and Kisiel-Kislański fulfilled their obligations towards the church very differently. Some of them fulfilled the obligations in an appropriate way, others did not engage themselves financially in the church issues, which was a source of much misunderstanding between the village owners and the parish priests from Parzymiechy, who were also the parish priests in Jaworzno. In fact, the exposit-vicar who lived by the church in Jaworzno suffered the most because of those conf licts. The culmination of the article is the description of the First World War in Jaworzno and the moment of the formal establishment of the Parish on the 9th of November 1919. After outlining the background of the Second World War on the territory of Wieluń by Rev. Prof. Dr. Hab. Jan Związek, Rev. Dr. Paweł Kostrzewski gives a detailed description of tragic events which took place in September 1939. The author depicts particular military divisions of the German and Polish Armies, whose route led through the territory of the Jaworzno Parish. He also shows material damage caused by the War. However, the greatest tragedy for the Parish was the death of a few inhabitants of Jaworzno in the very first days of the war as well as the murders committed on clerics related to Jaworzno by the Germans in Dachau Concentration Camp. Two parish priests Rev. Leon Kwaśkiewicz and Rev. Józef Piekieliński and two priests from the Parish Rev. Franciszek Strugała and Rev. Jan Wieczorek were murdered in Dachau. The fifth local priest – Rev. Władysław Derbis escaped from the German captivity and saved his life. What is more, on the 2nd of September 1939 German occupiers executed Rev. Bonawentura Metler – the parish priest of Parzymiechy, the vicar Rev. Józef Danecki and the organist Ignacy Sobczak. Post-war and communist times in 1945–1989 are described by Rev. Michał Widera. The author carefully outlines the social and religious situation of that period. The first post-war years were the most difficult. Both inhabitants and the first post-war parish priest had been restoring the sacred nature of the church. The upcoming years of Communism did not stop the development of piety of the local parishioners. In his next article, the above mentioned author shows the history of the contemporary parish in years 1989–2019. Biographical entries of the priests in the previous 100 years are presented by Rev. Dr. Kamil Kęsik in his next article. Profiles of eleven parish priests reveal the variety of pastoral activities led by each of them. The last part of the monograph consists of recollections of the oldest inhabitants of the Jaworzno Parish which were elaborated by Damian Troczka and Zofia Jarząbek. They show manifestations of religious and social life of its inhabitants.