ŚLĄSKIE STUDIA HISTORYCZNO-TEOLOGICZNE

CHURCH COLLECTIONS OF BOOKS ON THE AREA OF THE LWÓW ARCHDIOCESE IN THE LATIN ORDER ON THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY
The following article is an attempt to reconstruct the history of church collections of books, especially those belonging to the Polish monastries and parishes which were within the Austrian partition on the turn of the 19th century. The most drastic annihilation of the church libraries in Galitia and Lodomeria was done by the Josephian politic. In these times some orders and other "non-priestly" benefices were annulated. Those church institutions and their collections of books were sentenced for annihilation. The research aim of the article is to follow the history of church libraries belonging to the annulated monasteries. The problem will be illustrated by the history of the church libraries in the years 1780-1815 on the area of Lwów Archdiocese in Latin order.

Erection of the Archdiocese of Lvov of the Latin Rite in 1412 and its historical and cultural Context
On 15 January 1991 Pope John Paul II reactivated, being currently 600 years old, the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lvov of the Latin Rite. Marian Jaworski was appointed its first Archbishop. The Archdiocese was erected in 1375 with its seat in Halych and it was moved to Lvov in 1412 in difficult conditions in the Latin and Byzantine borderland. The aim of this article is to present the rich tradition of the Roman Catholic Church and her creative presence for 600 hundred years on the territory of the present Western Ukraine. The main threads of this article are as follows: the nationality of the “Ruthenian” land in the Middle ages, Latin missionary bishops in Ruthenia, the erection of a Metropolis of Halych of the Latin rite, the transfer of the seat of the Metropolis to Lvov in 1412 and its further development, jurisdiction of Bishops of Lebus in Ruthenia and the participation of the Franciscans and Dominicans in the erection of the diocese and in the Christianization of Ruthenia.

CHRISTLICHE GEWERKSCHAFTEN IM XIX UND XX JAHRHUNDERT IN OBERSCHLESIEN - AUFGABEN UND IHRE REALISATION
Zusammenfassug
Der industrielle Charakter von Oberschlesien entschied darüber, dass die mit dem Schutz der Arbeitsrechte verbundenen Probleme schon seit dem Ende des XIX Jahrhunderts auf diesem Gebiet als einige der wichtigsten galten. Się wurden auch von den katholischen Geistlichen aufgenommen und entsprachen der sozialen Kirchenlehre.
Infolgedessen, schon in den 70er Jahren des XIX Jahrhunderts engagierten sich die Priester sehr oft für die Bildung der ersten die Arbeitsrechte zu schützenden Organisationen, aus denen weiter klassische Gewerkschaften entstanden. Hier wurden Methoden eingesetzt, die in anderen Teilen Deutschlands von den Zentrumsparteifunktionären ausgearbeitet wurden. Die erste derartige Organisation war die Gesellschaft für Gegenseitige Arbeiterhilfe in Oberschlesien, die 1874 gegründet wurde. Die wichtigste Bedeutung erlangte jedoch die Gewerkschaft für Gegenseitige Hilfe der Christlichen Oberschlesienarbeiter. Sie entstand im Jahre 1889, und bedeutende Verdienste für ihre Gründung hatten besonders Priester Stanisław Radziejowski und Adam Napieralski. Diese Organisation, wie alle unter dem Patronat der christlichen Kirche funktionierenden Organisationen, förderte das solidarische Programm, indem sie den revolutionären Kampf ausschloss. Die Geistlichen hatten auch ihren großen Anteil an der Bearbeitung der ideellen Prinzipen für die schon typische Gewerkschaft, zu der die 1902 gegründete Polnische Berufsvereinigung zählte. Im Zeitraum zwischen zwei Weltkriegen nahm die Bedeutung der christlichen Gewerkschaften zu. Zu den größten Gewerkschaften jener Zeit gehörten die Christliche Gewerkschaft, die infolge der Spaltung in ZZP 1923 gegründet wurde, sowie die nach dem Maiumbruch entstandene Vereinigung der Christlichen Gewerkschaften. In Schlesien waren auch deutsche christliche Gewerkschaften tätig. Der Zweite Krieg und die Nachkriegsjahre waren für die normale Tätigkeit derartigen Organisationen nicht günstig. Ihre Wiedergeburt ist jedoch heutzutage zu bemerken.

Legitimization of Illegitimate Children. Practices from the Parish of Groszowice in Upper Silesia, Including Mixed Denominational Areas (1819–1870). Microanalysis
The deficiencies in the official statistics do not mean that it is impossible to determine data on the legitimization of illegitimate children in the19th century Silesia. The recognition of a child was recorded in the church records. As a case study the parish of Groszowice was selected. It was one of the parishes of the archpresbyterate of Opole. The Catholic parish of Groszowice included Grotowice – a village founded in the so-called period of the Frederician colonization, and the majority of its inhabitants were Protestants (members of the Evangelical parish in Opole).
This text focuses primarily on the problem of establishment of a legal relationship between an illegitimate child and his/her biological father. The years 1819-1870 were chosen as a time-frame. Phyton was used for carrying out the analysis (aggregative method, elements of family reconstruction). With the exception of Grotowice, the total of the illegitimate births corresponded to the percentage distribution of the number of inhabitants of particular villages in the total population of the parish. Out of 221 illegitimate children only 30 were legalized or adopt. All adopted children were born in the Protestant Grotowice. It has been possible to establish some single mother families, where this model was present through a few generations. The number of cases when the status of a child was legally altered, was surprisingly low.

Persecuzioni contro i sacerdoti della Diocesi di Katowice in Repubb lica Popolare Polacca. Sommario
Nel mese di marzo 2002 e apparso un nuovo libro intitolato: Lessico dei sacerdoti perseguitati in PRL (Repubblica Popolare Polacca) negli anni 1945-1989. E un lavoro di alcuni autori sotto la redazione di Jerzy Myszor. La Chiesa polacca ha vissuto la persecuzione in tutte le diocesi e le amministrazioni apostoliche perché i sacerdoti erano considerati, in opinione delle autorita communiste, come potenziale nemico di nuovo sistema. Le persecuzioni hanno toccato sia i presbiteri comuni come parroci, vicari, persino i seminaristi, sia i membri di gerarchia ecclesiastica non risparmiando nemmeno il primate della Polonia. Tra i 814 biogrammi si trovano le biografie di 44 sacerdoti della diocesi di Katowice e 9 religiosi da essa provenienti. L’articolo si occupa di questa storia della diocesi di Katowice.

La création de „L’ Association des prêtres polonais en France”. Résumé
Après la I guerre mondiale, la France était un des pays où se trouvaient beaucoup de polonais. Souhaitant garder leurs traditions d’origine et la culture polonaise, ils ont créé diverses association: groupes catholiques, artistiques et de métiers. De même, les prêtres polonais ont voulu aussi, a cette période, créer des associations pour garder entre polonais, intacte, la langue, les traditions et les valeurs catholiques et polonaises. Une des iniciatives a été la creation de “l’Association des prêtres polonais en France” à l’initiative du père Andrzej Sobieski. En novembre 1938, grâce a l’aide du secrétaire de la Mission Catholique Polonaise à Paris, le père Franciszek Cegielka SAC , le père Andrzej Sobieski a reçu les adresses des prêtres polonais qui travaillaient dans les diocèses francais.
Le 17 décembre 1938, il a pu informer par lettres ces prêtres de son idée d’organiser une assemblée des prêtres polonais. L’assemblée a eu lieu chez les religieuses polonaises de la rue de Vaugirard a Paris; neuf prêtres assistaient à cette réunion. Le but de cette nouvelle organisation était de garder les traditions et habitudes polonaises:
- a Noël (la veillée, la crêche, le pain azyme)
- En Carême (“le Saint Sépulcre”)
Le primat August Hlond et le consul a Lille Alexander Kawalkowski ont été informés de la création de cette association.L’action de cette organisation a été determinée en fonction de la situation politique en Europe en 1939. Au mois de mars 1939 le père Andrzej Sobieski fit une collecte entre les membres de l’association pour “la Fondation de la Defense Nationale en Pologne”. Quand a eclaté la II guerre mondiale, l’action de cette association s’est terminée.

La participation des prêtres de Haute-Silésie dans la vie religieuse des immigrés polonais en France entre les deux guerres
After 1919 Polish Episcopate made efforts to establish the Polish Catholic Mission in Paris. In these initiatives the Primate of Poland was supported by bishops Arkadiusz Lisiecki and Stanisław Adamski. The arranging of pastoral care needed both cooperation and agreement between Episcopate in Poland and France, between the rector of the Polish Catholic Mission in Paris and managers of plants as well as with Polish labourers. One of the problems were an insufficient number of Polish priests to supply pastoral care for Polish workers. In the article daily life of Polish workers and conditions of pastoral work of Silesian priests were presented. The fruits of pastoral service in the interwar period is evidenced by descendants of Polish emigrants who still live in France and care for Polish traditions and customs.

The circumstances of the election of Stanisław Adamski for Katowice bishop (1930)
On 13 May 1930, after less than a four-year governance, died bishop Arkadiusz Lisiecki. The complicated social-political situation on Silesia and customs prevailing among the clergy of Katowice diocese caused that to the candidates not only indepth theological knowledge and unblemished moral life, but also understanding of political issues, abilities of solving ethnical problems of Upper Silesia and managerial skills were demanded as well. Based on apostolic nuncio’s reports the author of the article shows the circumstances of the election of the third bishop of Katowice diocese. We get to know what traits – in nuncio’s opinion – the future Silesian bishop should have and the profiles of the individual candidates. Furthermore, the article informs who was the trusted advisor to apostolic nuncio and what decided that not bishop Teodor Kubina or any other suggested candidates but Reverend Stanisław Adamski became the Katowice bishop.