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Cemetery in Morachwa

Murafa | Ukraine
inna nazwa Murachwa lub Morachwa, ukr. Murafa (Мурафа)
ID: dok-000444-P

Cemetery in Morachwa

Murafa | Ukraine
inna nazwa Murachwa lub Morachwa, ukr. Murafa (Мурафа)

The Catholic cemetery in Morachwa lies in the southern part of the village and is relatively well preserved. All the gravestones noted by Zbigniew Hauser are with Polish inscriptions. They are surrounded by a wall with a gate. However, they are not gravestones of any particular artistic value, and there is a lack of noble tombstones. According to the inscriptions written down by Zbigniew Hauser, the cemetery was established back in the first half of the 19th century - the oldest of the surviving tombstones dates back to 1847. The vast majority of the monuments date from the second half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century.

The author wrote down inscriptions from 36 tombstones. One of them, which is an extended quotation from scripture, draws particular attention. It was engraved on the grave of a four-year-old girl named Marylcia, who died in 1874. Another children's gravestone stands out, decorated with the bas-relief heads of six angels on the grave of six children of the Wyrzykowski family. The massive stone cross on a tapering pedestal commemorating the local parish priest and papal chamberlain, Father Richard Rozemberg, is particularly impressive.

Four epitaphs have been preserved in the parish church: two from the late 18th century and two from the late 19th century. One of the older ones commemorates Joachim Potocki, a Lithuanian entailer, founder of the church, who died in 1791 and was buried, according to his will, under the threshold of the church. The second, from 1788, commemorates Marianna Wilamowska, a viceroy from Volhynia.

For the cemetery a documentation (4 cards) and a plan were made (kept in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). 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. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 297-300.
Author:
Bartłomiej Gutowski, Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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