Approval by Archbishop Jan Andrzej Próchnicki of the foundation of Krzysztof Sikorski for the mansionaries of the Lviv Cathedral

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD AMEN. IN ETERNAL MEMORY. The radiance of the Father's glory, which illuminates the world with its brightness, then especially surrounds with gracious favor the pious desires of the faithful who trust in the kindness of His majesty, when they strive, for the sake of eternal reward, to generously dedicate the goods bestowed upon them by Him to the increase of His cult, strength, and care. We, therefore, Jan Andrzej Próchnicki of Próchnik, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See Archbishop of the Lviv metropolis and perpetual administrator of the Sieciechów Abbey, announce by the power of this letter to all whom it concerns, both present and future: How the venerable Krzysztof Sikorski, formerly provost of the mansionaries of the Lviv metropolitan church, appeared personally before us, presenting a document written on parchment, sealed with his seal and signed by his own hand, containing the donation and foundation of his mansionary at our aforementioned Lviv church, with the following wording: I, Krzysztof Sikorski, priest, desiring to the best of my strength and efforts to remember such great divine goodness and benefits, and not to be ungrateful; and so that for future times there might be a constant memory of the established cult of God and His Most Glorious Mother, the Virgin Mary, through whom the Christian people receive special help – desiring with the help of God's grace to bring to fruition the intention long held in my soul, for the glory and honor of God Almighty, the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, the Most Glorious Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ, and in honor of All Saints, I decide to found and endow a mansionary at the Lviv metropolitan church, for the chanting of canonical hours and the offering of Masses with the office of the same Mother of God the Virgin, for the remission of my sins and for the salvation of the souls of my parents and benefactors. So that the Lord God, who in His kindness does not allow the cult of piety to wither without eternal reward, may mercifully deign to endow us for temporal things with eternal, immeasurable benefits. And so that the venerable college of mansionaries may accept and admit this mansionary of my foundation to their revenues, both of the first foundation of Odnowski and the granges, as well as to those additions to the property and the anniversaries derived from them, and that he may be an equal and legitimate mansionary for them in everything, by virtue of this my foundation I give and assign to the same aforementioned mansionaries, present and their successors, for eternal times, on the tenement house of the reputable Mr. Bartłomiej Taciik, a Lviv burgher, on Krakowska Street, a perpetual annual wyderkauf rent in the amount of sixty-six florins of Polish count, from the sum of one thousand one hundred florins, acquired first from the once honest Małgorzata Gadowska in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and seven, and then from the same Bartłomiej Taciik and his wife Zofia at various times, as the act of cession and entries made in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and ten in the Lviv council books more extensively contains and announces. To the same aforementioned mansionaries I also give and assign an annual and perpetual rent in the amount of sixty florins, from the sum of one thousand Polish florins, on the tenement house of the reputable Jan Szolc, located in the Market Square of this city, acquired in the year one thousand six hundred and eleven, as is more extensively contained in the Lviv council acts. The valid above-written rents by virtue of the mansionary founded by me are to be collected by the aforementioned mansionaries of the original foundation of Odnowski equally with the priest of my foundation. By virtue of my addition to the foundation, I give and assign to the same mansionaries present and future a perpetual annual rent in the amount of thirty florins, from the sum of six hundred Polish florins, on the tenement house of the reputable Mr. Justyn Pilecki, a Lviv burgher, located on the aforementioned Krakowska Street, acquired as is contained in the same council acts in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and thirteen. Furthermore, I promise to give them two hundred florins in cash for the purchase of a certain annual wyderkauf rent. By reason of this foundation, my addition, and the aforementioned rents, the said mansionaries present and future will be obliged and compelled – as they hereby obligate themselves – to celebrate and perform two Masses at the stone altar called the Most Holy Trinity: one for the Blessed Virgin Mary, the second a Requiem for my soul, on individual days of the week, which they shall choose, for eternal years, under the burden of their consciences. To the same aforementioned mansionaries I give and assign an annual and perpetual rent in the amount of seven florins, on parts of the tenement house of the honest Jadwiga Pileszynina, a Lviv burgher, located in the Market Square of this city, from the sum of one hundred Polish florins, acquired in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-four, asking the aforementioned present and future mansionaries that on every feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary and every Saturday, for eternal times, they chant the prose about the same Mother of God the Virgin: Congauderent Angelorum Chori. To the same aforementioned mansionaries I also give and assign an annual perpetual wyderkauf rent in the amount of fourteen florins, from the sum of two hundred Polish florins, on parts of the tenement house of the reputable Wojciech Mirys, saddler, a Lviv burgher, located on the aforementioned Krakowska Street, acquired in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-two, asking the venerable mansionary priests, present and future, that they themselves or through others every year celebrate and perform for my soul 7 vigils with nine readings together with lauds, and on the following day a Holy Mass, and this on the day of the anniversary of my death, under the burden of their consciences; if anyone were to neglect such an anniversary (except for the cause of illness), let him receive nothing. Finally, to the mansionary priest of my foundation I separately give and assign a perpetual annual rent in the amount of fourteen florins, on the tenement house of the reputable Mr. Jan Szolc, a Lviv juror, acquired in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three. The dwelling in the common house of the aforementioned mansionaries, erected at my own expense, shall remain at their disposal according to their house laws. The right of patronage or presentation of the mansionary of this my foundation after my death will legally belong to and pass to the Lviv council magistrate. After the presentation and acceptance before us of the aforementioned document, the venerable priest Krzysztof Sikorski with due diligence asked us that we deign to approve the said foundation letter and confirm and ratify the individual provisions contained therein with our ordinary authority. We, however, so as not to violate anyone's rights in any way as a result of a hasty approval of this foundation, first issued summons in the form of a proclamation (grida) against all and each one individually who might consider that they have a legal interest in this. When the aforementioned founder presented the duly executed proclamation letter, he asked earnestly that, in view of the non-appearance of the summoned, the aforementioned foundation document be approved and confirmed in all points, clauses, conditions, and articles and that our decree be issued in this matter. We, therefore, desiring for the increase of divine cult to bring to fruition his zeal and efforts, after waiting for the summoned longer and beyond the usual hour – since they did not appear and were justly considered disobedient – by virtue of their default, but at the further request and demand of the said founder, after consultation with our venerable chapter, we deemed it right that the mansionary founded in honor of God be established and instituted in our metropolitan church for the glory of God Almighty, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and All Saints; as we also hereby found and institute, and approve, ratify, and confirm all and individual points, issuing at the same time our judgment on all this by ordinary authority, and we assign and include it in the ecclesiastical immunity, deciding that all these rents and revenues covered by the foundation shall be collected, possessed, and used by the mansionaries present and future eternally and for all times, as they were assigned and designated by the power of the foundation. In faith and undoubted testimony of all this, we ordered this foundation to be secured by the attachment of our seal and ordered it to be signed by our own hand and by the venerable chapter. Done and given in Lviv, in our archbishop's palace, on the twenty-fifth day of the month of June, which was the Wednesday after the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-five. In the presence of the reverend, venerable, and noble: Jan Baranowski, archdeacon, Łukasz Kaliński, custodian, Melchior Olszkowski, canon of our Lviv metropolitan church, Mikołaj Sokołowski, our cross-bearer, Adam Kobyłecki, Andrzej Pękolz, mansionaries of this our church, Wojciech Sadłowski and Andrzej Zvcki, our courtiers, and many other credible witnesses of the above. Jan Andrzej Próchnicki, Archbishop of Lviv, by his own hand Krzysztof Sikorski, priest, by his own hand Jan Baranowski, Doctor of Both Laws, Archdeacon and then procurator of the venerable chapter of the holy metropolitan church of Lviv, by his own hand [Notarial sign with the inscription in the cross: MATEUSZ ADRIAN KOZŁOWSKI] And I, Mateusz Adrian Kozłowski, by holy apostolic authority and public [...] notary of the Lviv consistory, was present at the approval of this foundation to the faithful of Christ. And I saw and heard together with the above-mentioned witnesses how it was approved and ratified by the decree of the most illustrious and most reverend lord, Lord Jan Andrzej Próchnicki of Próchnik, Archbishop of Lviv, perpetual administrator of the Sieciechów Abbey, and assigned to the ecclesiastical immunity. Therefore, I have likewise signed with my own hand, and also with my usual sign and name, which I use in such matters, I have declared, sealed, and strengthened, being asked and called upon to do so. [On the reverse:] [Chancery note:] Foundation of Fr. Krzysztof Sikorski, priest, for the founded mansionary of the Lviv metropolitan church, Year 1625. [Note:] 1626, on the 24th of November, in the absence of [...] Mateusz Kozłowski, notary of the Lviv consistory, by his own hand. [Note:] In the Year of the Lord 1722, on the 20th of December, during the visitation conducted by the most illustrious and most reverend lord Mikołaj Ignacy Wyżycki, Archbishop Metropolitan of Lviv [...]. [Note:] Bundle 27, number 21.

IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN. AD PERPETVAM REI MEMORIAM. Splendor paternae gloriae qui sua mundum illuminat claritate, pia vota fidelium de clementia ipsius maiestatis sperantium, tunc praecipue benigno favore prosequitur cum suorum bonorum ab ipso eis concessorum aeterna retributionis contemplatione in sui cultus augmentum opes et operas liberaliter dedicare studuerint. Nos igitur Ioannes Andreas Prochnicki, de Prochnik, Dei et Sanctae Apostolicae Sedis gratia Archiepiscopus Metropolitanae Leopoliensis, Abbasque Sieciechoviensis perpetuus Administrator. Significamus tenore praesentium, quibus expedit universis tam praesentibus quam futuris. Quomodo constitutus coram nobis personaliter, Venerabilis Christophorus Sikorski, Praepositus et Olim Mansionariorum Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis, offerens in pergameno scriptas litteras sigillo suo subsignatas et manu propria subscriptas donationem et fundationem Mansionarij sui, in praefata Ecclesia nostra Leopoliensi, in se continentes eiusmodi sub tenore: Ego Christophorus Sikorski Presbiter, volens pro modulo virium ac laborum meorum tam ingentis Divinae bonitatis ac beneficiorum memor esse, non ingratus esse; Utque in futura tempora instituti Divini Cultus, Suique Gloriosissimae matris Virginis Mariae, cuius praecipue populus maxime iuvatur Christianus, memoria perpetuo agatur: ardenti desiderio dudum in animo meo fixum propositum, Divina auxiliante gratia in effectum deducere cupiens, instituo ad laudem et gloriam Dei Omnipotentis Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, Gloriosissimae Virginis Iesu Christi matris Mariae, Omniumque Sanctorum honorem, Mansionarium fundare ac dotare, apud Ecclesiam Metropolitanam Leopoliensem, pro decantatione Horarum ac Sacrificiorum Missae Officii de eadem Deipara Virgine, in remissionem peccatorum meorum, et in remedium Salutis animarum Parentum, ac Benefactorum meorum. Ut Dominus Deus, qui pietatis cultum non patitur sua clementia sine ultra aeterna retributione marcescere, aeterna pro temporalibus, nunquam comparanda beneficia, misericorditer nobis largiatur. Quem quidem Mansionarium fundationis meae, Venerabile Capitulum Mansionariorum suscepit ac admisit, ad eos proventus suos tam primae Fundationis Odnowiana, et praediorum: quam etiam ad eos auctiones, et Anniversaria illius provenientia, qui vel sit illis aequalis ac legitimus Mansionarius in omnibus ratione huius fundationis meae, do et assigno eisdem Mansionariis praefatis, modernis, atque post existentibus in annos perpetuo currentes in et super domum lapideam, Famati Domini Bartholomaei Taciik, Civis Leopoliensis, in platea Cracoviensi, Censum perpetuum reemptionalem annuum, florenos sexaginta sex numeri polonicalis, pro Summa Mille et centum florenorum, apud Honestam olim Margaretham Gadowska, sub anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Septimo, primum; deinde, apud eundem Bartholomaeum Taciik, et ipsius Consortem Sophiam Varijs temporibus comparatum, prout de eo transportato actuque inscriptionum, sub anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo decimo, coram actis Consularibus Leopoliensibus facta, latius in se Continet et obloquitur. Eisdem etiam Mansionariis praefatis, do et assigno Censum annuum atque perpetuum, florenorum sexaginta, pro summa Mille florenorum polonicalium, in et super domum lapideam, Famati Ioannis Shole, in Circulo Civitatis huius sitam, comparatum, sub anno Millesimo sexcentesimo undecimo, prout in actis Consulario Leopoliensi latius continetur. Ratos quidem census supra scriptos, ratione fundati Mansionarij mei, percipiant Dicti Mansionarij fundationis primariae Odnowiana, aequaliter, cum Sacerdote fundationis meae. Ratione vero auctionis meae, eisdem Mansionariis modernis et post existentibus do et assigno censum annuum quidem perpetuum, florenorum triginta, pro Summa sexcentorum florenorum polonicalium, in et super domum lapideam, Famati Domini Fustyn Pilecki, Civis Leopoliensis, in platea dicta Cracoviensi sitam, comparatum, ut in actis eisdem Consularibus, Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo decimo tertio, continetur: Insuper promitto eisdem dare ducentos florenos, paratae pecuniae, ad censum certum reemptionalem perpetuum comparandum. Ratione cuius fundationis et Auctionis meae, atque censuum praefatorum tenebuntur, et erunt adstricti, prout se praesentibus obligant, Dicti Mansionarii moderni atque post futuri, duas Missas legere atque absolvere, apud Altare lapideum, Sanctissimae Trinitatis dictum; alteram de Beatissima Virgine Maria, alteram Requiem, pro anima mea, singulis hebdomadis diebus, quos sibi elegerint, annisque perpetuis, sub onere Conscientiarum suarum. Eisdem Mansionariis praefatis, do et assigno Censum annuum atque perpetuum, florenos septem, in et super sortibus domus lapideae, Honestae Hedvigis Pileszynyna, Civis Leopoliensis, in circulo huius Civitatis sita, pro Summa centum florenorum polonicalium, sub Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo vigesimo quarto, comparatum, rogando dictos praefatos modernos atque post futuros, ut illi decantent, singulis festis B. Virginis, singulisque Sabbatis diebus, per annos perpetuo currentes, Prosam de eadem Deipara Virgine, Congauderent Angelorum Chori. Eisdem quoque Mansionariis praefatis, do et assigno censum perpetuum annuum reemptionalem, florenos quatuordecim, pro Summa ducentorum florenorum polonicalium, in et super sortibus domus lapideae, Famati Alberti Mirus, Sellatoris Civis Leopoliensis, in platea dicta Cracoviensi, latis comparatum, sub Anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo secundo, rogando Venerabiles Presbyteros Mansionarios praefatos, modernos atque post futuros, ut illi decantent atque perfolvant per se, vel per alios, quotannis, pro anima mea, nempe 7 Vigilias novem Lectionum cum Laudibus in Crastino Missam, idque die Anniversaria Obitus mei, sub onere Conscientiarum suarum: siquis autem eiusmodi anniversarium (excepta infirmitatis causa) neglexerit, nihil accipiat. Ad extremum, Sacerdoti Mansionario, fundationis meae, separatim do et assigno, Censum perpetuum annuum, florenos quatuordecim, in et super domum lapideam, Famati Domini Ioannis Shole, Scabini Leopoliensis, comparatum, sub Anno Domini Millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo tertio. Habitatio autem, in domo Communi Dictorum Mansionariorum, meis propriis sumptibus constructa, cedet dispositioni ipsorum, juxta leges eorum domesticas. Ius patronatus aut praesentandi Mansionarij eius fundationis meae, post obitum meum, legitime spectabit et devolvetur ad Magistratum Consularem Leopoliensium. Post quam quidem litterarum praefatarum coram nobis exhibitionem et receptionem, debita cum instantia praedicto Venerabilis Presbyter Christophoro Sikorski, Supplicavit nobis, quatenus praedictas fundationis litteras approbare dignaremur, singula in eis contenta authoritate nostra Ordinaria Confirmare, atque ratificare, dignaremur. Nos autem, ne praecipiti eius fundationis Confirmatione, alicuius Iuri quidpiam derogetur, ante omnia litteras Citationis in vim Gridae, contra omnes et singulos, conjunctim vel divisim, se interesse habere putantes, decrevimus: minime praedicto Fundatore reproducendo litteras Gridae debite executas, petiit instantissime in Contumaciam Citatorum non comparentium praedictas Fundationis litteras, in omnibus punctis, clausulis, conditionibus, et articulis universis, approbari, Confirmari, nostrumque Decretum super his subigi interponi. Nos itaque, pro Divini Cultus augmento, studium et operam illius, ad effectum deducere cupientes, citatis diutius et ultra horam solitam expectatis, non comparentibus, et contumacibus, prout merito erant pronuntiati, in eorum contumaciam, sed ad dicti Fundatoris ulteriorum instantiam et petitionem, communicato cum Venerabili Capitulo nostro Cultu Mansionarium ipsius, in Ecclesia nostra Metropolitana ad Omnipotentis Dei gloriam, et Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, Omniumque Sanctorum honorem, fundari et constitui decrevimus prout praesentibus fundamus et constituimus, omniaque et singula approbamus, ratificamus, confirmamus, auctoritateque nostra Ordinaria, pariter et decretum his omnibus interponimus, immunitatique Ecclesiasticae ascribimus et incorporamus, decernentes ut hos omnes Census et proventus, in fundatione contentos, mansionarii moderni et post futuri, prout illis attributum et assignatum est tenore fundationis, percipiant, habeant et usufruantur perpetuo et in aevum. In quorum omnium fidem et evidens testimonium, Sigilli nostri appensione, fundationem hanc, communicari fecimus mandavimusque eandem manu nostra subscriptam a Venerabili Capitulo Subscriptam. Actum et datum Leopoli in Palatio nostro Archiepiscopali, die vigesima quinta mensis Iunii, quae fuit feria quarta in crastino Nativitatis S. Ioannis Baptistae, Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Vigesimo quinto. Praesentibus Reverendis, Venerabilibus, atque Nobilibus, Ioanne Baranowski Archidiacono, Luca Kalinski Custode, Melchiore Olszkowski, Canonico Ecclesiae nostrae Metropolitanae Leopoliensis, Nicolao Sokolovio Crucifero nostro, Adamo Kobylecki, Andrea Pękolz Mansionarijs eiusdem Ecclesiae nostrae Metropolitanae, Alberto Sadlowski, et Andrea Zvcki, familiaribus nostris, alijsque plurimis, circa praemissa fide dignis testibus. Ioan[nes] Andreas Prochnicki Archiepis[copus] Leopolien[sis] Manu propria Christophorus Sikorski Presbyter m[anu] p[ro]p[ri]a Joan[nes] Baranowskj V.I.D. Archidiaconus, et Procur[ator] p[ro] tunc V[enerabi]lis Capituli S. Eccl[esi]ae Metropol[itanae] Leopolien[sis] mpp. [Znak notarialny z napisem w krzyżu: MATTH ADRIANVS KOZŁOWSKI] Et ego Matthaeus Adrianus Kozłowski sacr[a] Auth[oritate] Apl[i]ca et pub[li]cus [...] Notar[ius] Cons[istor]ij Leopolien[sis] X[st]i fidel[ibus] p[rae]s[e]ntis Fund[ati]o[n]is Confirm[ati]o[n]i praes[ens] interfui. Quamq[ue] Ill[ust]rimi ac R[everen]dissimi D[omi]ni D. Ioannis Andreae Prochnicki de Prochnik Archiepi[scopi] Leopolien[sis], Abbatiae Sieciechovien[sis] perpetui Ad- ministratoris decreto approbaretur et ratificaretur Eccl[esi]asticaeque immunitati adscribe- retur vidi una cum praenotatis testibus et audivi. Ideo con[simili] manu mea p[ro]pria subscripsi, signoq[ue] et no[min]e meis quibus in talibus utor solitis decrevi et consigna- vi et com[m]uniui rogatus et requisitus. [Verso:] [Nota kancelaryjna:] Fundatio X. Christophori Sikorski Presbyteri pro Mansionario fundato Leopoliensis Ecclesiae Metropolitanae Anno 1625 [Nota:] 1626 die 24 Novembris in Absentia [...] Matthaeus Kozłowski Notar[ius] Cons[istorii] Leopolien[sis] mpp. [Nota:] Anno Domini 1722 die 20 Decembris in visitatione peracta per Illustrissimum et Reverendissimum Dominum Nicolaum Ignatium Wyzycki Archiepiscopum Metropolitanum Leopoliensem [...] [Nota:] Fasc. 27 nro 21