Saletyńscy studenci Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

Abstract

In the years 1948-1954 sixteen Saletinian seminarists bound their education with the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Ten of them were entitles a student status of the Theological Faculty of the Jagiellonian University, the others in the academic year 1953/1954 studied at the “Domesticum UJ” in the scope of the Silesian Theological Seminary in relation with reduction of admission limit by the State. Five seminarists completed the five-years course of the studies at the Theological Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. Four of them crowned their studies with Master’s degree in Theology. Earlier, in 1949 two Saletinian priests joined a group of Masters of Theology of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, who in the interwar period completed studies at the Philosophical-Theological Institute of the Holy Virgin of La Salette Missionaries in Dębowiec. One of them, priest Roman Wojtunik, passed a Doctorate in Theology at the oldest Polish university in 1952 as the first and the only Saletinaian priest. After dissolution of the Theological of the Jagiellonian University in 1954 by communists, nine Saletinian seminarists continued their education at the General Study Centre of Dominican friars in Cracow. Among sixteen bound with the Jagiellonian University, thirteen took holy orders (two left during studies at the Jagiellonian University, one from Dominican school). Majority of the Saletinian seminarists descendend from the Przemyśl diocese and from Province of Rzeszów. Studying seminarists livied at the monastery hause at Wiślna street in Cracow, being a seat of the Saletinian seminarists in the years 1948-2001. Rectors’s function of the Saletinian seminarists in Cracow for students connected with the Jagiellonian University was fulfilled by two priests: Roman Wojtunik (1948-1949) and Tadeusz Bak (1949-1954).