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The article is an attempt to describe the conditions in which the body assumes the role of a prop - it becomes an object organizing individual and social life. For such a process to take place, it is necessary to disconnect the body from the Self. It comes with his death. Funeral practices that change the social status of the body can take a monistic or dualistic form. The former make the body a relic and are based on the belief that soma is connected with its spiritual essence. The latter, on the contrary, points to the impermanence of such a connection. In this way, the body becomes a prop, an object, an object, and a tool for funeral performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the Emperor Valerian's persecutions in 259, bishop Fructuosus and his two deacons Augurius and Eulogius were killed in the amphitheatre arena of the picturesque Roman city of Tarraco (Tarragona). This is the earliest martyrdom known from written sources in Hispania, mentioned by the author of the Passio Fructuosi, Augurii et Eulogii, an account probably written down by one of the witnesses to the events. The ashes of the martyrs were deposited in a vast necropolis extra muros. In the 4th century, a huge pilgrimage complex was built around their grave, to which pilgrims from all parts of the orbis christianus flocked. In the 6th century, a basilica was erected in their honour at the amphitheatre - the site of the martyrdom of the bishop and his deacons. Their relics were certainly venerated in Tarragona until the early 8th century, and the cult itself, after the relics were carried away from the city after the Arab invasion, probably lasted longer. Although the remains of the cult sites of the Tarragona martyrs are among the most extensively studied by researchers, many questions still remain unanswered. It is therefore worthwhile to re-collect the results of the hitherto research, to confront them with the written sources, and thus establish the current state of knowledge about these oldest places of cult of the martyrs in the Iberian Peninsula. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents an unknown manuscript of Nowe niebo duchowne [...] (New Spiritual Heaven [...]) ascribed to Tomasz Nargielewicz OP, disregarding the inspection of the piece. The essential part of the article consists of a description of the regained relic and a comparison of the work--the manuscript and the codex where it was recorded--with Nargielewicz's output. The analyses allow to settle the author of New Spiritual Heaven [...] and to suggest new hypotheses about the circumstances of Nargielewicz's works composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents one of the less known Latin-Polish glossaries of plant names from the Franciscan manuscript codex at present kept at the National Library of the Czech Republic in Prague. Even though over a hundred years ago the codex was mentioned among interesting manuscript relics and its links with Przemyśl were suggested, there had never been a thorough analysis of it. Therefore this article is an attempt to trace the provenance of the codex, which turns out to have been from the Franciscan monastery in Przemyśl to Prague. As a result of revived interest in late-medieval and 16th-century herbals, as well as Latin-Polish glossaries of herb names, the author has decided to present that relic. What speaks in favor of that decision is the fact that of the group of 271 plant names, which have been compared with the known dictionaries from Polish codices and herbals, nearly one-third features only in the Przemyśl (Prague) manuscript, thus confirming its value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article opens a series of publications on the existence of sacrum in remote places, small, peripheral, less known sanctuaries against the backdrop of religious landscapes. The first of the sanctuary series is Mętków, whose history is presented by Władysław Zarębczan. However, I add anthropological commentary to this story, using categories: religious culture, etiological legend, sanctuary, relics.

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The paper discusses the question of the substitution of the stem suffix *-ъv- for the suffix *-ъka, which converts words from the *-(j)ū- to the *-a-declension, as well as the problem of identification of original *-(j)ū-stems. An analysis of Polish and Slavic material leads to the conclusion that a part of nouns that are commonly regarded as *-(j)ū-stems have in fact a different origin: some can be derived from collective nouns in *-va (still productive in East Slavic), e.g. *kuropъtva, *plotva, *ǫtva, and a part have probably been extended with an unmotivated labial element -v- which has the appearance of a relic of a *-ū-stem, but appears most commonly after roots that end in a velar consonant or a spirant-stop sequence. The paper argues against the hypothesis about late (Proto-)Slavic activization of *-ū-stems and proposes instead that a part of this class had been eliminated at a prehistoric stage, depending on the quality of the stem consonant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author presents the findings of his own studies on the presence of relics and dedications in the churches of Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre in medieval Polonia Minor (covering the former Krakow and Sandomierz voivideships). The article reveals important accounts in Samuel Nakielski’s chronicle. The first account relates bringing the soil from Jerusalem by Jaksa and is known in literature. The second account concerns the possession of the relics of the Holy Cross by the monastery of Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre, hitherto unknown in literature. The author formulates a thesis on the existence of important relics of the Passion in the Miechów monastery. Key source accounts on dedications were analysed. It was indicated that the primary dedication of the Miechów church towards the end of the 18th century was a combined invocation of the Holy Sepulchre, the Holy Spirit and Blessed Virgin Mary. The author also extensively analyses the dedication of the church in Żarnowiec, with dedications to both feasts related to the Holy Cross, to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Sepulchre and Blessed Virgin Mary. The dedications of 10 other churches administered by Canons Regular of the Holy Sepulchre are also discussed. In addition, the author presents a substantial collection of data on the dedications of surviving altars and chapels in relation to the Miechów church and St Jadwiga’s Church in Stradom. In conjunction with the information on numerous relics of saints, the findings should become a departure point for further studies.

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The establishment of the Polish Center of Syndonology in Krakow in 2017, which is the delegation of the International Center of Syndonology in Turin, inspired the author to reflect on the Polish research on the Shroud of Turin. The article presents three generations of Polish syndonologists: (1) the few knowledge about the shroud who popularized up to 1939, (2) five major investigators of the shroud from the second half of the twentieth century and co-founders of the Syndonological Study in Krakow, created at the Polish Theological Society in 1981, and (3) the shroud researchers in the 21st century cooperating with the Polish Center of Syndonology. Their main research and educational achievements as well as participation in international fora were pointed out. The article is supplemented by Polish syndonological bibliography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The body and the sanctity. The case of the 19th-century Russian holy startsy The article considers references to the body appearing in selected texts concerning 19thcentury Russian holy startsy. Three conditions of a holy man’s body are discussed: living, immediately after death and as relics. The body plays an important role in creating the image of holiness of startsy during their lifetime. In the chapter The Breath of Corruption in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, the sacred status of starets Zosima’s dead body is cancelled by the crowd’s interpretation of his body’s putrefaction as judgment of God refuting the holiness of the deceased monk. This, in turn, allows for a discrediting the life of the starets. Mirroring the events of Dostoyevsky’s novel, the dead body of a monk became subject of dispute shortly before the canonization of the starets Seraphim of Sarov in 1903. Drawing on the commonness of the view identifying putrefaction of the body with profanity, a Petersburg anti-Orthodox association sought to discredit the Russian Orthodox Church by demanding that the coffin of Seraphim of Sarov is reopened. The answer of Antonius, the Metropolitan of Petersburg, was an article, in which he argued that inviolability of the body was not a necessary condition of holiness. During the canonization, the adored relics of Saint Seraphim were used by the state power to strengthen the bond between Tsar Nicholas II and the people. Ciało i świętość. Przypadek XIX-wiecznych świętych starców rosyjskich Artykuł rozważa odniesienia do ciała pojawiające się w wybranych tekstach dotyczących XIX-wiecznych rosyjskich świętych starców. Zostały w nim omówione trzy stany ciała świętego: za życia, tuż po śmierci oraz w postaci relikwii. Ciało odgrywa ważną rolę w kreowaniu obrazu świętości starców podczas ich życia. W rozdziale Odór trupi w powieści Bracia Karamazow Fiodora Dostojewskiego sakralny status martwego ciała starca Zosimy zostaje unieważniony przez zgromadzony tłum poprzez zinterpretowanie gnicia ciała jako wyroku bożego przeczącego świętości zmarłego. Dzięki temu możliwa jest dyskredytacja osoby starca za życia. Podobnie jak w powieści Dostojewskiego ciało zmarłego mnicha stało się przedmiotem sporu niedługo przed kanonizacją starca Serafina z Sarowa w 1903 roku. Powszechność poglądu utożsamiającego gnicie ciała z profanum sprawiła, że zwalczający prawosławie petersburski związek domagał się ponownego otwarcia trumny Serafina z Sarowa, chcąc podważyć wiarygodność Rosyjskiej Cerkwi Prawosławnej. Głos w sprawie szczątków starca zabrał metropolita Petersburga Antoni, przekonując, że nienaruszalność zwłok nie jest koniecznym warunkiem świętości. Podczas uroczystości kanonizacyjnych adorowane relikwie św. Serafina zostały wykorzystane w służbie władzy państwowej w celu wzmocnienia więzi pomiędzy carem Mikołajem II a ludem.

In 1668 in the collegiate church in Uniejów were placed the mortal remains of archbishop of Gniezno, Bogumił. In 1925 the Holy See pronounced him blessed. This article acquaints the readers with the personality and life of archbishop Bogumił and describes his beatification process and cult since his death up to the present. Uniejów is proud to have the relics of blessed Bogumił. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Wśród dzieł Grzegorza spotykamy także kilka historycznych świadectw czci kobiecych relikwii i używania imion świętych kobiet w tytułach świątyń i klasztorów. Fragmenty te zwykłe mają znaczenie drugorzędne, choć np. w przypadku św. Felikuli świadectwo Grzegorza jest jednym z ważniejszych. Kobieta w oczach Grzegorza może być wzorem świętości, miłości, nadziei, otrzymuje dary Boże, na płaszczyźnie relacji z Bogiem jest nawet w możności przewyższyć mężczyznę.