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Cemetery in Cudzieniszki

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Cemetery in Cudzieniszki

1 The church cemetery is located next to St Joseph's Church of 1629. In its north-eastern corner are the graves of two priests. The first is a modest gravestone in the form of a vertical slab surmounted by a cross with a marble plaque, Rev. Casimir Lobacz from 1940.The inscription has survived: /PR. KAZIEMIERZ ŁOBACZ/ PROB. CUDZIENISKI/DIED. 10 XI 1940/ AT THE AGE OF 52/ PEACE TO HIS SOUL/. The second gravestone, that of Rev. Jan Adamowicz, is in the form of a rectangular horizontal slab of black granite. The slab bears the symbols of the priesthood: chalice, stole, breviary and the preserved inscription: / KS. JAN ADMOWICZ/ BORN. 24. 6. 1911/DIED. 25. 10. 1993 R. / PEACE TO YOUR SOUL NOBLE PRIEST/.
The active Catholic cemetery is located 100 m from residential buildings and 100 m from the church. It was created in the first half of the 19th century. It is square in shape, occupies an area of 0.25 ha and only remnants of its fence remain. A new cemetery adjoins the churchyard to the south. It is dominated by graves from the first half of the 20th century and the present one. The oldest preserved tombstone is that of Magdalena of Bukowska Orlańska from 1851. It has the form of an obelisk made of white marble, topped with a cast-iron crucifix. The inscription on the tomb has been preserved: / D. O .M / MAGDALENA Z BUKOWSKICH/ ORLAŃSKA/ B. W. R. 1791 ZMA. W. R. 1851/ MCA APRIL 29 DAY/ TO HER BEST MOTHER/ SADDENED BY THE MOST PAINFUL LOSS/ SON AND DAUGHTER/ PUT THIS TOKEN OF HONOUR AND GRATITUDE/ TO HER ETERNAL MEMORY/ TO THOSE PASSING BY/ ASKS FOR THREE/ ANGELIC GREETINGS/. There are also 4 graves of Home Army soldiers in the cemetery: Zbigniew Gancarz, Henryk Żukowski, Bolesław Taraszkiewicz and Paweł Nehrebecki.
Information about the cemetery has been published (see bibliography).

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. Województwo wileńskie na obszarze Republiki Białoruś”, Warszawa 2007.

Author:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Salomea Grabowska
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