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Vol. 140 (2023): Our Past

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Birch box in the Długosz Museum in Sandomierz. A souvenir of an exile from 1863, Fr Konstanty Piwarski

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52204/np.2023.140.225-238  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2023-12-27

Abstract

The article describes the story of Fr Konstanty Piwarski, an exile of 1863, and his Siberian souvenir – a birch box given to him by fellow exiles in Spassk, Russia, in 1879, and which is still kept in the church Długosz Museum in Sandomierz. Fr Piwarski brought the box (the exile chain was still inside) back home in 1880 and left it with his family in the Sandomierz diocese, but later had to return to exile. Eventually, he was released into the country in 1884; he died as a vicar in Tchow near Kozienice. The lid of the box bears 24 signatures of the clergymen and laymen; 14 priests were earlier his fellow resettlers in the Syberian village of Tunka (a total of 156 clergymen were sent there by the authotities), near Lake Baikal. Biographies of these priests exiles conclude the text.

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