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Cemetery in Medenice

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Cemetery in Medenice

There are two Catholic cemeteries in Medenice. The Roman Catholic cemetery (known as the Polish cemetery) is located in the western part of the village, while the Greek Catholic cemetery is located in the eastern part. Hauser focuses on the former. It was tidied up in the early 1990s and has a typically rural character, as indicated by the headstones rising directly from the turf.

Buried in the cemetery are members of the families that have lived in Medenice for centuries - the Mazuraks, Mazurczaks, Kovals, Lesnansky, Szymanskys, Garbiczs.
The oldest preserved tombstone is the stone obelisk on the grave of Sylvester Kowal (d. 1873). As the most interesting Hauser chooses stone obelisks topped with the Crucifixion Group, with angels holding a crown and sculptures of saints in niches on the graves of Michał Szymański (died 1883) and Jadwiga Szymańska (died 1883). These tombstones are among the unique ones in the cemeteries of Eastern Little Poland and have a folk character.

Hauser's attention is also drawn by a high obelisk topped with a statue of the Mother of God and Child (crowned) on the grave of Aleksander of the Nieczuj Jurkiewicz family (died 1881) or by the gravestones of former parish priests of Medenice - an impressive obelisk made of pink stone on the grave of priest Jakub Skowron (died 1921) and the gravestone of priest Bolesław Teśniarz (died 1934). In addition, in the depth of the cemetery there is a magnificent monument with a superimposed stone cross decorated with a mask of the Suffering Christ on the grave of Franciszek Garbiak (died 1922).

The Greek Catholic cemetery is dominated by stone monuments topped with crucifixes. Many of them also have sculptures of saints in their niches.

Information about the cemetery published (see bibliography).
Bibliography:
  • „Cmentarze polskie poza granicami kraju” , raport, oprac. B. Gutowski, Warszawa 2022 (maszynopis).
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. III, „Dawna Małopolska Wschodnia. Województwo lwowskie (część wschodnia)", Kraków 2007, s. 143.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Wiktoria Grabowska
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