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Description of the parish church and castle gate in Lubieszów

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Description of the parish church and castle gate in Lubieszów

The text describes the town of Lubieszów in Minsk province, Pinsk district. There is a church and a post-Jewish monastery, dedicated to St John the Evangelist. The temple was founded in 1733 by Jan Karol and Anna, née Chodorowska, and consecrated by Bishop Kaczkowski in 1786. In the further part of the note, the interior of the church is described (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1873, Series 2, T:11, pp. 158, 160, after: Digital Library of the University of Łódź).

A modernised reading of the text.

The parish church and castle gate in Lubieszów.


In the town of Lubieszów, in the Minsk gubernia, in the Pinsk district, there is a church and a monastery, once belonging to the Piarist Order, founded by Jan Karol and Anna, née Chodorowska, the Dolskis, in 1733, and consecrated in 1786 by Bishop Kaczkowski. The superficiality of this temple recommends neither its shape nor its architectural ornamentation, because, for reasons unknown to us, it is not yet completely finished. But once inside, the viewer is pleasantly surprised by the true masterpieces of art which, according to experts, are the most beautiful paintings in Lithuania. Their creator, inexhaustible in ideas and indefatigable in work, was a brother of the Piarist congregation, Lukas Hiibel, who devoted three years to making the walls and vaults of the Lyubišov church a precious shrine to the art of painting. The entire church is painted "alfresco", without any of the shining lights so blatant in other churches of the Lord. The content of the paintings is mostly taken from St. John's Revelation; however, many of them are damaged due to dampness, and it is to be feared that the rest of the paintings will be damaged as well, as the church needs a new covering. However, the perseverance and energy of the local parish administrator will probably be able to save the church and its accumulated treasures from ruin, which will pass Hiibel's name on to posterity. Lubieszów, before the Piarists moved in, used to be a village that belonged to the Kozikis, then to the Višniovskis and the Dolskis, and in the middle of the last century it became the property of the grandfather of today's heir, Jan Czarnecki, castellan of Braclaw. The gate, the picture of which is given here, as well as the moats around it and the walls, testify that there must have been a defensive castle here, of which traces barely remain today. Apart from the Piarist church, there is also the Capuchin church in Lubieszów, founded by Castellan Czarnecki, which is in a deplorable state nowadays. Destroyed by fire, the remains of the monastery barely remain, and the church, with its vaults beneath it, now serves only as a posthumous refuge for the Czarnecki family. During the time of the Piarist priests who maintained the schools in Lubieszów, it was bustling and cheerful; today it is quiet and empty. However, we look forward to a better existence in the future, when the planned railway to connect Pinsk and Kowel, via Lubieszów, comes to fruition.

Time of construction:

1873

Publication:

30.09.2023

Last updated:

09.07.2025
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