Published: 2021-11-171

Justyna Szafryńska, the visionary of Gietrzwałd, and her family. A genealogical study based on parish registers

Kazimierz Łatak
Echa Przeszłości
Section: ARTICLES
https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.7213

Abstract

This article presents the results of a genealogical query on Justyna Szafryńska and her family. Justyna Szafryńska was a visionary who had experienced several apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Gietrzwald in 1877. The source materials for the study were the register books of Gietrzwałd parish. The recovered and collated primary information paints a coherent and reasonably clear picture of the visionary’s origins and family environment. The apparitions were a significant phenomenon from the religious, social and cultural point of view. They gave rise to the Marian Sanctuary which, in the religious topography of Poland, is frequently compared with Częstochowa or even Lourdes. The study well complements the existing research on religious phenomena in Gietrzwałd. It makes a valuable contribution to future critical analyses of the visionary’s biography as well as the much-awaited research into the Marian Sanctuary.

Keywords:

Church prosopography, anthropology of Warmia’s religious culture, Gietrzwałd Sanctuary

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Łatak, K. (2021). Justyna Szafryńska, the visionary of Gietrzwałd, and her family. A genealogical study based on parish registers. Echa Przeszłości, (XXII/2), 203–219. https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.7213

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