https://doi.org/10.31648/cetl.11370
People make the history of the institution. The seminary in Lublin recorded in its annals the presence of the cleric Wacław Milik from the village of Seroczyn in the Podlasie diocese. Due to its annexation in 1867 to the Lublin diocese, its clerics studied in Lublin. Milik became part of the Lublin seminary community a year before the outbreak of World War I. However, already in the second year of his studies he was unable to return due to war conditions. His formation took place in his home parish. It was not until 1915 that he was able to continue his studies in Lublin as a third-year student. He was a good alumni and student. In these war conditions he and the seminary were forced to suffer poverty and narrowness. For many of the students it was a life test. As the war progressed, the mobilisation for perseverance and intensive intellectual and spiritual work came. When the war for independent Poland was also taking place behind the walls of the seminary, the alumni were struggling with their vocations with the idea of serving the Church and the Fatherland as priests. It was like two wars, in which they were struggling with their own enemies.
The Lublin seminary coped with the difficulties during this difficult time. It never interrupted its formation, although its regularity suffered. It was not possible to start and end at the desired time of the academic year. Yearbooks of philosophy, the first and second year of studies, were formed in their parishes. The adventures of alumni Wacław Milik correspond to the path that the seminary in Lublin took during the end of the partitions and the rebirth of the independence of the Fatherland and the structures of the Polish state.
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