Tykocińskie zgromadzenia zakonne w pismach Zygmunta Glogera

Abstract

In this article author tries to recreate the image of religious congregations in Tykocin – Bernardines and Congregation of the Mission – emerging from the writings of Zygmunt Gloger. United with local community, despite their monastic seclusion, they were important part of town’s social life, they shaped provincial reality. How ever in times in which author of Old polish encyclopedia lived, they were only a memory. Closed as a result of repressions after fall of January Uprising, they left void which was filled, with disastrous effects, by Russian military, symbol of oppression, or not filled at all. Regretting this, Gloger tried to save memory of both congregations and their legacy not only by reminding of their contributions for local society, but also by collecting and publishing ancient writings found in old buildings formerly belonging to Bernardines and Congregation of the Mission, now abandoned.