Charitable work of rev. Karol Lubianiec (1866-1942)

Abstract

The article (on the basis of the unpublished archival documents) presents the figure of rev. Karol Lubianiec, a great philanthropist, a teacher and a social activist. At the beginning of the 20th century he created the biggest network of care and educational institutions working in the Vilnius Region. They provided the youth and children with both open and secret schooling. The educational institutions managed by rev. Lubianiec in the 1920’s were handed over to the Salesian Communities and the Grey Ursulines, and they were expanding dynamically till the outbreak of World War II. Rev. Lubianiec also worked as a lecturer in the seminary, a builder of the churches, a missionary on the Borderlands as well as a propagator of the temperance movement. Rev. Karol Lubianiec was killed by the Germans in 1942.