http://hdl.handle.net/11320/154 2026-06-20T10:41:19Z 2026-06-20T10:41:19Z Kasabuła, Tadeusz http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19573 2026-01-08T08:07:35Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: The Endowment of the Vilnius Cathedral Chapter in the Years 1390-1662 Autorzy: Kasabuła, Tadeusz Abstrakt: The first donations to the cathedral chapter in Vilnius date back to 1390 and were bequeathed by King Władysław II Jagiełło. By giving the lands of Strzeszyn to the canons, the monarch provided the basis for the development of the capitular latifundium. It was expanded by the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas, who, after assuming power in 1391, in 1415 endowed the chapter, in addition to several minor estates, with the lands of Kamieńszczyzna, which, combined with the endowment from Jagiełło, gave the Vilnius canon corporation land goods that can already be called a latifundium. The estates belonging to the Vilnius Chapter gradually increased in the sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries owing to the generosity of successive rulers and magnate families. Over time, the chapter’s endowment was increased by private donors, both from the clergy and laity. This endowment, which by the middle of the 17th century included about 1000 farmsteads (so-called “smokes” – Pol. dymy or sochy) and covered around 21300 hectares of various types of land, placed the Vilnius Cathedral Chapter among the five most generously endowed canon corporations in the Polish-Lithuanian state. Moscow’s invasion and the occupation of a huge part of the country by foreign troops in the years 1656-1662 brought about an economic collapse of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The capitular latifundium suffered greatly as a result of the war. Some of the land goods suffered losses of 80-90%. In 1662, the income from the whole endowment was less than half of what it had been before 1656. Although the chapter rebuilt its latifundium through careful efforts, it never regained the old dynamics of development.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Proniewski, Andrzej http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18318 2025-07-01T07:59:29Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Sakrament chrztu świętego źródłem tria munera Christi w nauczaniu papieża Franciszka Autorzy: Proniewski, Andrzej Abstrakt: The article focuses on the issue of the sacrament of baptism as the foundation of the common priesthood on the basis of the teaching of pope Francis. The sacrament of Baptism confers the grace of overcoming the effects of original sin and also obliges the baptized to participate in the life of the Church and to realize the threefold mission of Christ, which is the result of the dignity of God’s adopted childhood received through his power: priestly, prophetic and royal. The aim is to update, based on the teaching of Pope Francis, the fruits of the grace of baptism that affect the mentality of the believer, supporting their mission in everyday life, in whatever circumstances he or she may be and whatever social role he or she may play. The analysis includes the issue of the essence of the sacrament of baptism, its meaning and the effects it brings. Their specificals have been inscribed in the three dimensions of the common priesthood, thanks to which the baptized realize tmen, that is, in the dimension of the priestly, prophetic and royal mission. The identity of a believer included in the common priesthood by the power of baptism affects their experience of love, shaping courage and responsibility to be available to God and another man in everyday life.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Kasabuła, Tadeusz http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18315 2025-07-01T07:28:41Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Nauczanie prawd wiary w diecezji wileńskiej w dobie reform i zmierzchu Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodów Autorzy: Kasabuła, Tadeusz Abstrakt: The first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its circumstances were a profound shock for the majority of its citizens, including those who viewed the laws guaranteeing noble freedoms as the foundation of the nation’s strength. This created fertile ground for attempts to implement reforms of a scope and pace never seen in the Commonwealth. A crucial role in these reforms was attributed to the Catholic Church, whose reform-oriented hierarchy, including Bishop Ignacy Massalski of Vilnius, was prepared to take on this challenge and risk. This issue was central to Polish Catholic Enlightenment thought. Reformers, in keeping with the spirit of the age, recognised that the foundation of the transformation lay in changing the way all citizens perceived their duties to the state. These efforts also required a religious sanction. At the level of parish ministry, this entailed efforts to make the faithful – particularly those most overlooked and neglected in this regard – aware of their religious and confessional identity by reminding them of the fundamental truths of Christian teaching in its Catholic interpretation. It was reasoned that a properly informed individual, through subsequent stages of religious and patriotic formation, would come to understand independently that they possessed a “homeland” that provided security and was their home; that this home was under threat and could be lost to neighbouring schismatic and heretical rulers. This idealistic and, from a contemporary perspective, somewhat naïve conviction underpinned the decision to employ the pulpit as a tool for state reform.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Kasabuła, Tadeusz http://hdl.handle.net/11320/17993 2025-03-03T09:20:13Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: The Genesis and Evolution of Non-Collegiate Canon Chapters at the Cathedral Chapter in Vilnius (1388-1945) and in Białystok (1945-1993) Autorzy: Kasabuła, Tadeusz Abstrakt: This study discusses one of the aspects of the history of the cathedral chapter in Vilnius and its continuation in the post-war period in Białystok. It directly concerns the circumstances of the formation and development of the canonry outside the strict chapter body, i.e. the functions of coadjutors and honorary canons in general. This issue has so far been neglected in historiography. The capitular body in Vilnius in the pre-partition period consisted of six prelates and twelve canons. The function of a non-collegiate coadjutor appeared for the first time in the 17th century. It reached its peak in the 18th century. During the partitions, as a result of the gradual reduction of prelate and canon offices by the tsarist authorities, temporary coadjutors began to be established, and as repressions against the Catholic Church increased – honorary coadjutors and honorary canons. The current constitutional and organizational shape of the chapter is mainly the result of the continuous evolution of the offices and dignities throughout the nineteenth century, in response to the dynamic changes in the partitioner’s policy towards the Church and the needs generated by them.

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