The text describes Tynna, a village in Podolia, where there is a church with a painting of the Virgin Mary. The history of the village from medieval times through the times of Sigismund Vasa to Ignatius Huretsky is recalled. A description of the church and a reproduced image of the miraculous painting of the Virgin Mary are also given. (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1864, T:9, pp. 116-117., after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text

Tynna with a church famous for the miracles of the Mother of God.

Tynna is a quiet village in Podolia, spreading out on both banks of the Tarnava River, which rolls through the village of Tarnava and the town of Dunajowce, parallel between the Smotrycz and Ushitsa rivers, and flows into the Dniester in a southerly direction. The only and famous glory of today's Tynna is the beautiful church famous for miracles. The village, spread out on a plain, is crowned by forests in the south, and in the north, on the left bank of the river, the church reigns over it.

Tynna lies in the Kamenets district, Uszyce decanship, on the post road itself, 4 miles from Kamenets and 1 mile from Jarmoliniec. The origins of this place are lost in the darkness of the centuries; however, when there is a written mention in the church archives that Tynna, Tarnawa, Tarnawka and Tomaszów had been royal properties for two hundred years before they were inherited by Zygmunt Waza in 1607 through an exchange to the estate of Tomasz Humiecki, a Podolski huntsman, it should be assumed that Tynna was established at the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century.

It was during the glorious times of the Olgierd and Wladyslaw Jagiellonians, when Polish rye and wheat floated down the Dniester as far as Byzantium and Cyprus. At the time, Tynna was a substantial town, spread out on both sides of the Tarnawa River. On the left bank of the river, in front of the inn, called the town hall, they show the place where the wooden church of St. Katharina stood, which is said to be the oldest. Around 1390, a parish church was built above the little wooden one by Tomasz Humiecki, the Podolsky huntsman, the leaseholder of Tynna at that time.

After Tynna passed to the Humieckis at the beginning of the 17th century, Urban VIII, in his privilege granted to the local church with an indulgence for all the Solemnities of the Blessed Virgin Mary, calls it: "The church of Tynna is a place of pilgrimage". P. Mary, calls it: "ecclesia primae fundationis" of the hunter Humiecki, from whom, no doubt, also this image of the Mother of God, so far famous for its miracles, was offered. Church memoirs testify that not only was the church plundered by the Tatars in 1656, but also the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary was cut down at that time. The church memoirs testify that not only was the church robbed by the Tartars in 1656, but also the miraculous painting of the Virgin Mary was cut with a truncheon above the left eye, which is confirmed by the scar on the holy face.

When the Turks invaded Podolia several years later, in the reign of King Michael in 1672, the miracle-working image was moved from Tynna to the Kamenets Cathedral; and when the Turks conquered Kamenets as well, Humiecka, a bishop of Podolia, was no sooner mindful of saving her children than she took the miracle-working image, begged from the Turks, to Lviv, from where it did not return to Tynna until the following year. The church, which had fallen into ruin in 1706, was soon restored from its foundations by Stefan and Katharina Humiecki, Voivodes of Podolia, and on 10 October 1717 by Stefan Rupniewski, Bishop of Kamieniec, under the invocation of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and St Adalbert. This is attested by a stone inscription found by the local parish priest and placed at the entrance to the sacristy.

In 1734, the Tynėnai church was plundered from Wallachians, Gypsies and other attackers. To get an idea of the number of pilgrims visiting Tynna on the indulgenced feast day of 2 July, it is enough to mention that in 1743 there were up to 30,000 communicants. After the death of Stefan Humiecki, Voivode of Podolia, in 1736, his son Ignacy Humiecki, the Crown Stolnik, took possession of Tynna. In accordance with his father's will, he started the construction of the present church, which was completed by his wife, Teresa of Pociej.

The reader has a view of this church, with the Humiecki family coat of arms and a painting of the Mother of God, which has been miraculously famous since the 16th century. The church of today rises magnificently on a small rectangular hill, with its front turned to the south. The facade is capped with masonry cornices and pilasters, and plaster capitals and crockets. On the lower side frames stand statues of St Ignatius and St Teresa, and on top of the capitals of St Peter and St Paul. On either side of the facade rise turrets with crosses, and in the middle between them on a half-oval promontory stands a statue of the Immaculate N. P. Mary.

In the middle of the church is a cupola with a bell tower. The entire building, including the nave and chancel, is 47 cubits long and 18 cubits wide, and is divided into three naves by arcades. There are 9 altars and the miraculous image of N. P. Mary holding P. Jesus on her left hand, is painted on wood, in frames and gilded cloth. The image of the Assumption of N. P. Mary, with a mensa and ciborium of woodcarving. On the right is the sacristy, on the left is the treasury with its beautiful monuments. It should be added here that Tynna, with Katarzyna Humiecka, Voivode of Podolia, when she became second wife of Bernard, Voivode of Podolia, passed to the Gozdzkis, and with their daughter Karolina to her second husband, Prince Charles de Nassau-Siegen.

The Duchy de Nassau, in the absence of offspring, bequeathed their estate to the Greek Ekomon, later Butiaginowa, from whose son Tynna Nosalewski, married to Potocka, now acquired it. The present-day church, bright and magnificent, through the untiring zeal of the local canon and parish priest for 13 years, Fr Michal Lisiecki, has recently undergone almost complete internal restoration.