Published : 2024-07-04

The City and the University: Father Wacław Kruszka’s Account of Lublin from His Tour of Poland in 1923

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In 1923, the pastor of St Adalbert’s Parish in Milwaukee, WI, Father Wacław Kruszka toured diocesan capitals in Poland while returning from Rome, where he had presented an official not to Pope Pius XI and the Roman Curia on the appointment of Polish bishops in the United States. He also come to Lublin for one day, where this renowned historian of Polish Americans visited the principal sites in the city. He also met with the bishops Ordinary Bishop Marian Fulman and Suffragan Bishop Adolf Jełowicki, asking them for opinion and assistance on a matter that had bothered Polish Catholics living in the U.S. for years. He visited the university, the castle, and the local Dominican church, and the site where the construction of the Jesuit college Bobolanum was starting. Kruszka sent his reports on his time  in Poland as a correspondent for Polish-American press. He also published them as an independent book.

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Wacław Kruszka, Lublin, Catholic University of Lublin, Polish emigration, United States of America



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Teka of the Historical Sciences Commission of the Learned Society of KUL |ISSN 2658-1175 eISSN 2719-3144 DOI: 10.18290/tkh

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