Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer

Vol. 87 (1997): Our Past

Articles

The catalogue of graves of Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Armenian Catholic clergy at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv

  • Józef Wólczański
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.1997.87.323-374  [Google Scholar]
Published: 1997-06-30

Abstract

The Łyczakowski Cemetery in Lwów was set up in 1786, two years af, Kaiser Joseph II had ordered all churchyards in Galicia to close down. It uCr the second oldest cemetery in Poland in its pre-1939 borders. It has a total area of c. 40 ha. Thanks to the loving care of a long line of administrators prior to 1939 it became a cemetery and park complex of outstanding beauty. From its beginnings it was the favoured burial ground of the upper and middle classes not only of Lwów, but also of the whole of Galicia. The tombs of the secular and monastic clergy of the three Catholic rites Roman Catholic, Greek (Ukrainian-Byzantine) Catholic and Armenian Catholic - have been a prominent feature of the Łyczakowski Cemetery. A period of systematic devastation of the graves and deliberate obliteration of tombstone inscriptions followed, old sites were made available for new burials. Although the list of graves of the monastic clergy provided in the study is not complete, in the face of the constant neglect and devastation of the Lychakiv Cemetery, it is an attempt to summarize the names that may soon be erased from stone monuments. Their graves may disappear and be forgotten, but not their role in the history of the Church and their contribution to the culture of the former Polish eastern border.

References

  1. Charewieżowa Ł., Cmentarze Lwowa, „Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny” z 1936. [Google Scholar]
  2. Medyński A., Ilustrowany przewodnik po Cmentarzu Łyczakowskim, Lwów 1937. [Google Scholar]
  3. Nicieja S.S., Cmentarz Łyczakowski we Lwowie w latach 1786-1986, Wrocław 1988. [Google Scholar]
  4. Siuta D., Wezwany do miłosierdzia. Zygmunt Gorazdowski i jego dzieło, Tarnów 1984. [Google Scholar]
  5. Wólczański J., Ksiądz Szczepan Szydelski (1872-1967). Polityk i działacz społeczny, Kraków 1992. [Google Scholar]

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.