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Vol. 125 (2016): Our Past

Articles

Correction house for priests in Liszków in the years 1835-1852

  • Wiesław Partyka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.2016.125.191-200  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2016-06-30

Abstract

For ages the Church has taken care of a worthy representation of the priesthood. Priests who had neglected their duties were severely admonished or sent to penitential retreat. For a long time the places of retreat were monasteries, where the penitent underwent the process of correction in silence and concentration. In the 19th century special institutions began to be established for sinful priests. Such an institution for 30 priests was established in Liszków, in the Kingdom o f Poland in 1836. The house had very strict rules and was supervised by a priest chosen from among those proposed by diocesan bishops from the Kingdom. In 1852 by the tsar’s orders the correction house was moved from Liszków to the post Benedictine Holy Cross monastery, where it functioned until the January Uprising. In 1866 by the decree of the Bishop of Sandomierz it was moved to the Dominican Monastery in Wysokie Koło, where it functioned until 1885. The example of this institution testifies to the fact that the Church strove to react to the misbehaviour of priests by removing them from duty and ordering penance so as not to rise scandal among the faithful and give the priests themselves a chance for correction.

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