Przeorzy karmelitańskiego konwentu w Bydgoszczy w latach 1728–1816 w świetle akt kapituł prowincjalnych

Abstract

In the 17th century the Carmelite monastery in Bydgoszcz adopted the so-called Touraine reform – strictior observantia – and from 1728 formed part of the Most Blessed Sacrament Province of Wielkopolska. An insight into the poorly known history of the monastery is offered by the records of the province’s chapter gatherings which are still held in Kraków’s Carmelite monastery referred to as “Na Piasku”. Province’s Chapter Acts manuscript lists the documents of chapter and council meetings from the period when the monastery operated in Bydgoszcz (up until its dissolution in 1816). The article provides brief descriptions of those texts, indexes their content with reference to the period of the monastery’s operations and offers a list of monastery priors. This is complemented by biographical notes based on information about monks from the document.