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The Prague Roots of Polish Benedictines (in the 20th Century)
2020
As a conseąuence of the nineteenth-century dissolution of religious orders, no małe Benedictine monastery survived in Poland. Renewal of religious life was undertaken by Father Klemens Dąbrowski (1875 -1953), from 1909 a monk of the Emaus Monastery in Prague. He found a depth of spiritual life there. During the Great War he was involved in helping Polish refugees. After its conclusion, he decided to return to Poland. In the years 1919 -1923 he attempted to create a Polish foundation based on the monastery in Prague (at the Holy Cross and in Tomaszów Mazowiecki). Left without help, he did not realize his plans there. His prior, Father Arnośt Vykoukal, offered help, but he did not have the re…
Posługa kapelana w więzieniu świętokrzyskim w pierwszych latach Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej
2020
W roku 1919, sto lat po kasacie opactwa benedyktynów na Świętym Krzyżu, ojcowie Klemens Dąbrowski (1875-1953) i Jozafat Ostrowski (1890-1939) podjęli starania o odzyskanie tego obiektu dla zakonu. Na przeszkodzie stały władze departamentu sprawiedliwości, który właśnie przejął zabudowania klasztoru na Świętym Krzyżu z zamiarem przywrócenia w nim funkcji penitencjarnych (dawne opactwo zostało przekształcone w więzienie w roku 1886). W okresie II Rzeczypospolitej, nie usunięto więzienia z Łysej Góry a zatem nie udało się przywrócić tam klasztoru. Jedną z form aktywności o. Dąbrowskiego na Świętym Krzyżu była posługa kapelana. Autor tekstu opisuje zakres obowiązków kapelana więziennego, jego r…
Środowisko polskich uchodźców w Pradze okresu Wielkiej Wojny (1914-1918)
2017
In 1914 Prague became one of the places where Polish refugees were hiding from the Russian soldiers' harassment. In order to help them, numerous committees were organised, among which the most prominent was Polish refugees' Committee ledby a Benedictine - father Klemens Dąbrowski. He was also a patron for Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and Students' Fraternity. The organisations donated food and clothes; their members also animated cultural life - opened librariesand organised patriotic meetings. Czech peoplc, mostly intelligentsia and clergy, provided help as well. However, many citizens of Prague were hostile towards the refugees, and when the military operation finished, most Poles lef…