Inwentarz zespołu akt Gidle. Klasztor ojców dominikanów z lat (1479) 1615-1998

Aleksander Litewka

Abstrakt

The Dominican Monastery dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Gidle near Częstochowa was founded in 1615. A small fonds of archival materials from this monastery covering the years 1615- 1998 is now stored in the Archives of the Polish Province of the Dominicans in Cracow. The fonds measures 5 linear metres. Records of this fonds were arranged and described by Aleksander Litewka in the years 2010-2011. He also prepared an inventory, including 226 archival units, grouped into 12 series. In addition, the inventory contains the information about two units of the records of category B –records of no historical value. The first series includes documents, mainly paper ones, from the years 1623- 1942. Some of them concern the organization and property of the monastery. The content of other documents relates to religious matters; establishing days of indulgence and special services by the popes and bishops, the cult of relics, production and distribution of images of Our Lady of Gidle, finally coronation of the miraculous figure, which occurred in 1923. The next two series of the Gilde Archive include issues connected with the supervision of the monastery, organizational and personal records of the monastery. Series four and five contain records presenting the attitude of the church hierarchy and the secular authorities towards the monastery in Gilde. The sixth series of documents, titled „Religious Life”, comprises records related to the cult of Our Lady of Gidle, healings thanks to Her intercession and the coronation of the figure in 1923. The seventh series of the records contains materials connected with the construction and restoration of the church and monastery in Gilde. The largest, eighth series covers property and business records and books of account. The most important and largest part here is subseries of property records, mainly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The ninth series of the records includes materials regarding the library and subscriptions to publications taken out by the Dominicans. Another series of this fonds contains historical works and monastic chronicles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The next, eleventh series of archival materials and documents is linked with the previous one. It includes iconography and records associated with it. The last, twelfth series of the fonds concerns the records of Polish organizations connected with the monastery, created in the First World War and Polish-Soviet War in 1920.