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Cemetery in Jelna

Jelna | Belarus
biał. Jelʹnia (Ельня)
ID: dok-000726-P

Cemetery in Jelna

Jelna | Belarus
biał. Jelʹnia (Ельня)
Cemetery with Polish gravestone monuments. Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography). According to Lewkowski and Walczak, "the active Catholic cemetery is located ca. 4 km northeast of the town of Bielica, surrounded by fields. It is established on a plan similar to a square without alleys and division into plots. The flat terrain, fenced with metal mesh, occupies an area of approximately 0.5 ha. (...) The cemetery was created in the 19th century on the site of the former church and monastery cemetery, whose origins date back to the 17th century. In the central part of the cemetery, on the site of the former church, is the 19th century cemetery chapel, rebuilt and enlarged in recent years. The chapel is brick, plastered, rectangular in plan, with a pitched roof covered with eternit. (...) The state of preservation of the cemetery is good. "The oldest gravestone, from 1867, is on the grave of Józefa Jeżewska. The inscription reads: "W BOGU ZESZŁA / Ś. P. JÓZEFA Z OKOŁOWÓW JEŻEWSKA / LIVED LAT 57 / UMARŁA 1867 R. / MAY 3 / ASKS FOR THREE HAIL MARYA". The cemetery also contains the grave of the parish priest, Fr Orzechowicz, and Ksawery Rachowski, a 14-year-old boy who was killed during an attack on the vicarage. The inscription from their gravestone reads: "THE HOUSE OF ETERNITY / HERE RESTS IN THE GODS OF THE PAST / THE LATE X. P. MICHAŁ ORZECHOWICZ / PASTOR OF THE LOCAL CHURCH / LIVED 62 YEARS / AND THE BOY KSAWERY RACHOWSKI / AGED 14 WHO WERE KILLED FROM ROBBERY / IN THE NIGHT OF MARCH 3 DAY 1870. / ASK FOR THREE HAIL MARYS".
Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Lewkowska Anna, Lewkowski Jacek, Walczak Wojciech, „Zabytkowe cmentarze na Kresach Wschodnich Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej. Wschodnie powiaty dawnego województwa białostockiego (obecnie na terenie Białorusi), Warszawa 2007.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Dawid Mendrek
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