Erection of the Saint Martin Monastery in Lviv by Archbishop Jan Tarnowski

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, AMEN. IN PERPETUAL MEMORY. Lest the deeds of mortals, which are fluid, fleeting, and prone to falling into the oblivion that confusion often infects with various errors, should dissipate and come to nothing, it has been devised by prudent human resourcefulness for their eternity and durability that they be immortalized by the defense of writings – especially those which are established and granted for the honor and glory of God and His Saints, or for the benefit of the salvation of souls, or for ecclesiastical greatness and adornment. Therefore, We, Jan Tarnowski, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See Archbishop of Lviv, perpetual administrator of the Abbey in Mogiła, hereby notify all and sundry, both present and future, by this Our letter, that before Us, sitting on the tribunal for the administration of justice and before Our court, personally appeared the religious and most reverend father brother Władysław Zardecki of the Order of Carmelites of the Ancient Regular Observance, the lawful procurator or provisor of the convent and church of Saint Martin, situated and located outside the walls of the city of Lviv, in the Krakow Suburb, on this day, by virtue of a citation letter (crida), issued by way of a general summons against all and sundry, jointly or severally, claiming an opposing right or any interest in the goods described below, issued from the chancery of Our court and legally, as was evident, proclaimed from the pulpit before the people gathered for service by the venerable Wojciech Spławski, priest vicar of Our metropolitan church, and affixed to the doors of the Lviv churches of Our archdiocese by the venerable Maciej Łobodzic, subdeacon of minor orders, accused of non-appearance (contumacy) with due insistence all and each individually, summoned by said citation letter, and not appearing; and in their absence, he presented: the record of the principal sum of one thousand Polish zlotys for an annual rent (wyderkaf) of eighty zlotys derived from said principal sum, located on the Komarno estates, as well as the donation of a plot, lands, meadows, an inn, together with their houses, buildings, and all other appurtenances and accessories, for the founding and construction of the church and convent of Saint Martin and for the maintenance of the fathers and brothers of said Order, as well as for the construction of a hospital for sick noble soldiers, most piously offered, donated, and secured and mortgaged on certain estates by the late noble Aleksander Zborowski of Rytwiany; or rather, the authentic certification of all these aforementioned documents by the most reverend late Andrzej Srzedziński, Bishop of Nikopolis, suffragan, custodian, and official general of Lviv, together with two confirmations of the most serene monarch John II Casimir, by the grace of God King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania [etc.], strengthened by the greater crown seal; humbly requesting that all and sundry summoned, and not appearing, be declared in default (contumacious) and in their absence, said record, donation, certification, and approvals be approved in all points and articles; that the above-mentioned principal sum together with the rent derived from it, as well as the donation of the plot, lands, meadows, houses, buildings with all appurtenances and accessories, be assigned and incorporated into ecclesiastical liberty and immunity; and that on this sum and rent, as well as the donation, the church, monastery, and formal convent, or cenobium of said religious fathers and brothers and their Order, as well as the hospital for sick soldiers, according to the thought and intention of the founder, on the plot, lands, meadows, and houses, as well as the garden commonly called "Angielczyków", and on the second garden, located between the meadows of the Dominican Order of Lviv on one side, the Armenians on the other, and on the outside by the lands of a certain miller, lying in the Krakow Suburb of said city of Lviv, be erected, founded, and endowed; and that permission for the construction of the above-mentioned church, convent, and hospital in that place, as well as the care of souls and the management of the hospital mentioned above and only of that place, which care they had already previously assumed, be granted and delegated to said fathers and brothers; and that other things necessary in the above regard and around it, by the provision of the holy Council of Trent, as well as the statutes of the Provincial Synod, and also the Rule and the prescribed Order, be decided and ordained, and that appropriate letters in the usual form be issued. The content of which record, donation, foundation, and certification follows: Andrzej Srzedziński, by the grace of God and the Apostolic See Bishop of Nikopolis, suffragan, custodian, vicar in spiritual [matters] and official general of Lviv, provost of Przemyśl [...] [insert of the certification of Andrzej Srzedziński from the year 1630/1631, transuming the record of Aleksander Zborowski on Komarno from 1631] [...] John II Casimir, by the grace of God King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Prussia, Masovia, Samogitia, Livonia, Smolensk, Chernihiv, and also hereditary King of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals [...] [insert of the diploma of John II Casimir dated: Given in Zamość, on the 10th day of the month of May in the Year of the Lord 1656 [...] Piotr Ryszewski, secretary] [...] We, however, Jan Tarnowski, the above-mentioned Archbishop, desiring to bring the pious and praiseworthy intention, as a spiritual and religious person, to the desired effect, first of all, having waited for the aforementioned summoned parties for a long time and more than an hour of hearing, and they not appearing, we have judged them as in default, as they justly deserved and holy justice commands; and in their absence, after mature deliberation and after due and diligent examination of this matter, considering above all that all and sundry formalities from the provision of the constitutions of the Holy Apostolic See and the statutes of the holy Council of Trent issued regarding the construction of new monasteries have been fulfilled, therefore, having invoked the name of Christ, we approve, confirm, and ratify the above-included record of the principal sum of one thousand Polish zlotys and the annual rent of eighty zlotys in all and individual its points, clauses, articles, and all conditions, by the power of ordinary authority and perpetual durability, and at the same time place a decree upon it, and also assign, incorporate, and include said plot, lands, meadows, inn together with their houses, buildings, and all other accessories and appurtenances, along with the donation of these and with the principal sum of money and rent, into ecclesiastical liberty and immunity; and on this plot, lands, meadows, inn, houses, and other buildings, and all their appurtenances and accessories, as well as on the mentioned principal sum of money and rent, we have deemed it a duty to erect, found, and endow the church under the invocation of Saint Martin, bishop and confessor, the holy apostles Philip and James, and also the holy virgins and martyrs Apollonia and Barbara, and a formal convent and monastery or cenobium, as well as a hospital for sick soldiers according to the intention of the founder, as well as the religious fathers and brothers of said Order of Carmelites of the Ancient Regular Observance, after the pattern of other churches and religious convents and their Order, in the mentioned Krakow Suburb of the city of Lviv of Our archdiocese, namely in the place where they are now located, and to grant the right and permission for the establishment and construction of the church and monastery or formal cenobium, as well as the hospital for sick soldiers, to said religious of the mentioned Carmelite Order from Our certain knowledge, to introduce them to it and to them, and to support and preserve them in their peaceful use and possession perpetually once introduced and intromitted. Thus, we hereby approve, confirm, ratify, place [a decree], assign, incorporate, include, erect, found, endow, grant, introduce, support, and preserve. So that said religious fathers and brothers of the mentioned Order, present and future, according to the laws and custom and the provision of the Regular Observance and the decrees of the Congregation of Interpreters of the holy Council of Trent, may freely serve the Most High in peace of spirit and body, and may have the care of souls of the hospital of only that place, from now as from immediately, and vice versa, we permit and wish and ordain that it should be permitted to anyone. Furthermore, we decide and by deciding sanction forever that the parish church of the place or plot and houses, or of said lands, appurtenances, and all their accessories, on which the church and convent, as well as the hospital, have recently been erected by Us, shall never feel or suffer any prejudice, damage, or diminution or reduction in its income from the title of administering sacraments, both voluntary and necessary offerings, carols, and other benefits, nor any obstacles in parish rights from said church and convent and hospital, as stated, recently erected, and from its rectors and servants. Which church and its rectors and servants we wish, by the power of this Our declaration, to fully and completely enjoy, use, and rejoice in their parish right and ancient customs. And if any violation should ever occur from this title (from which may God protect), we leave the right of pursuing [claims] before Us and Our most reverend successors, their commissioners or officials, to said church forever, and we order letters of approval, confirmation, and erection to be issued in the usual form. In witness whereof, we have ordered this letter to be strengthened by Our seal. Done in Lviv in Ruthenia, on Wednesday, the seventeenth day of the month of July in the Year of the Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty-eight, in the eleventh Roman indiction, during the pontificate of our most holy lord, lord Alexander, by Divine Providence Pope, the seventh of that name, happily reigning, in the fourth year. In the presence of the most illustrious and most reverend lord Stanisław Czuryło of Goraj, provost, vicar in spiritual [matters] and Our official general, Jakub Cawatt, canon of Lviv, parish priest of Wyżniany, and the distinguished Maciej Kuczankowic, master of liberal arts, doctor of philosophy of the Krakow Academy, public notary by the authority of the holy apostolic see and of acts before Us, and many other credible witnesses. [Signatures:] Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Lviv, by his own hand. Stanisław Czuryło of Goraj, provost, vicar in spiritual matters and Our official general, [together with] Jakub Cawatt, canon, parish priest of Wyżniany. Maciej Kuczankowic, doctor of philosophy, public notary by the holy apostolic authority and of the acts of the curia of the most enlightened and most reverend archbishop administrator. [On the reverse:] [Note 1:] Introduction of the Carmelite fathers to Saint Martin in Lviv. Most enlightened Jan Tarnowski, Archbishop of Lviv, 1658. [Note 2:] Year 1658, 13th year of the archdiocese. [Records of the bailiff's report and the act of introduction / oblate from July 1658:] And on the 28th day of July [...]

IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN AD PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM Ne mortalium actiones quas fluxa et lubrica facileq[ue] decidem obliuio, variis confusionum erroribus inficere consueuit, euanescerent, et in nihilum redigerentur, sagaci humano remedio, pro earum perpetuitate et subsistentia adinuentum est, vt scripturarum munimine perennentur: Haec praesertim quae in cultum et honorem Dei, Sanctorumq[ue] eius aut in profectum salutis animarum vel in Ecclesiasticam ordinantur et conferuntur amplitudinem et decorem. Proinde nos Ioannes Tarnowski Dei et Apostolicae sedis gratia Archiepiscopus Leopoliensis, Abbatiae Clarae Tumbae Administrator perpetuus. Vniuersis et singulis tam praesentibus quàm futuris, his Nostris praesentibus significamus, quomodo coram Nobis pro tribunali et Iuribus reddendis sedentibus Iudicioq[ue] Nostro comparens personaliter Religiosus et Adm[odum] R[n]dus Pater F. Vladislaus Zardecki Ordinis Carmelitarum antiquae Regularis Obseruantiae, Conuentus et Ecclesiae Sancti Martini extra muros Ciuitatis Leopoliensis, in suburbio Cracouiensi situ[atae] et existentis Procurator seu Prouisor legitimus, in termino hodierno, ex literis Crida, in vim citationis generalis aduersus omnes et singulos, communiter vel diuisim sua ex aduerso Ius et interesse aliquod ad infra scripta se habere praetendentes, ex Cancellaria Curiae Nostrae emanatis, et legitimè vti apparebat, per publicationem ex Ambona coram populo ad Diuina audienda congregato à Venerabili Alberto Spławski Presbytero Vicario Ecclesiae Nostrae Metropolitanae, et per affixionem Valuis Ecclesiarum Leopolien[sium] Archidioecesis Nostrae à V[enera]b[i]li Mathia Łobodzic, minorum Ordinum Subdiacono executis, contumaciam omnium et singulorum, dictis Crida literis Citatorum et non comparentium, debita cum instantia accusauit, et in eorum contumaciam, Inscriptionem summae Capitalis Mille florenorum Polonicalium, in censum Annuum Reemptionale[m] Octuaginta florenorum, ab eadem Capitali summa prouenient[em], super bonis Komarno collocat[am], nec non donationem areae, Fundorum, Pratorum, Cauponae, cum suis domibus, aedificiis, et aliis adiacentiis et pertinentiis quibusuis et Vniuersis, pro fundatione et erectione Ecclesiae, Conuentus S. Martini, et sustentatione Patru[m] et Fratru[m] Ordinis illoru[m], nec non erectione Hospitalis pro Militibus infirmis Nobilibus, per Generosum olim Alexandrum de Rytwiany Zborowski pientissimè oblat[am] donat[am] et super certis bonis assecurat[am] et hippotecat[am]. Verius attestationem praemissorum omnium auhtenticam [sicut!] R[eve]rendi[ssi]mi olim Andreae Srzedzinski Episcopi Nicopoliensis Suffraganei Custodis et Officialis Generalis Leopolien[sis] Vnà cum confirmatione bina Serenissimi Principis Ioannis Casimiri Dei gratia Regis Poloniae Magni Ducis Lituaniae [etc.] Sigillo Regni Maiori communit[a] reproduxit petens humiliter omnes et singulos citatos et non comparentes contumaces reputari, et in eorum contumaciam Inscriptionem, donationem, Attestationem, Confirmationes huiusmodi in Vniuersis punctis, et articulis approbari, praefatam Capitalem Summam vnà cum censu ab eade[m] prouenien[ti], nec non Donationem areae, Fundorum, Pratorum, domorum, aedificiorum, cum omnibus adiacentiis et pertinentiis quibusuis, libertati et immunitati Ecclesiasticae adscribi, et incorporari, atq[ue] super huiusmodi summa et censu, ac donatione, Ecclesiam, Monasterium et Conuentum formalem seu Caenobium dictorum Religiosorum Patrum et Fratrum ac Ordinis ipsorum, nec non Hospitale pro infirmis Militibus, iuxta mentem et intentionem Fundatoris in et super Area, Fundis, Pratis, et Domibus, nec non Horto Angielczykow Vulgo nuncupato, tum et altero horto, inter prata Ordinis praedicatorum Leopolien[sium] ex Vna, Armenorum ex altera, et cuiusdam Molendinatoris exterius partibus in suburbio Cracouiensi, Ciuitatis praedictae Leopolien[sis] iacent[ibus] erigi, fundari, dotari, facultatemq[ue] Ecclesiam, Conuentum et Hospitale praefata, in eodem loco struendi, curam animarum et administrationem Hospitalis praefati, eloci illius tantum, quam iam aliàs in se receperunt praefatis Patribus et FF. concedi et delegari, et alia in praemissis, et circa eadem, ex praescripto SS. Concilii Tridentini, tum etiam Statutorum Synodi Prouincialis, nec non Regula et Ordinis antedicti necessaria, statui et ordinari, atq[ue] literas desuper necessarias in forma solita relaxari. Cuius quidem Inscriptionis, Donationis, fundationis, attestationis, tenor sequitur talis: Andreas Srzedzinski Dei et Apostolicae sedis gratia Episcopus Nicopoliensis Suffraganeus, Custos, Vicarius in spiritualibus et Officialis G[e]n[er]alis Leopolien[sis] Praepositus Premisliensis [...] [insert attestationis Andreae Srzedzinski z roku 1630/1631, transumujący zapis Aleksandra Zborowskiego na Komarnie z 1631 r.] [...] Ioannes Casimirus Dei gratia Rex Poloniae, Magnus Dux Lithuaniae, Russiae, Prussiae, Masouiae, Samogitiae, Liuoniae, Smolens[ciae], Czerniechow[iae]q[ue], Nec non Suecor[um] Gottor[um] Vandaloru[m]q[ue] haereditarius Rex [...] [insert dyplomu Jana Kazimierza datowanego: Datt. Zamoscij die X Mensis Maij Anno D[omi]ni MDCLVI [...] Petrus Ryszewski Secretarius] [...] Nos vero Ioannes Tarnowski Archiepiscopus supra memoratus, piam et laudabilem Vti persona Ecclesiastica et religiosa intentionem, ad optatum finem deducere cupientes, anteomnia dictos Citatos diutius, et Vltra horam audientia[m] expectatos, ac non comparentes, Contumaces prout meritò erant, Iustitia sancta suadente reputauimus, et in eorum contumaciam maturâ deliberatione praehabitâ, et negotio praesenti probè ac diligenter examinato, eoq[ue] potissimum animaduerso, quòd solemnitates omnes et singulae, ex praescripto Constitutionum Sanctae Sedis Apostolicae, tum SS. Concilii Tridentini Statutorum, de erigendis nouis Monasteriis editorum, praefuerunt, ideò Christi nomine inuocato, praeinsertam Inscriptionem summae Capitalis Mille florenorum Polonicalium, et census annui Octuaginta florenorum, in omnibus et singulis eiusdem punctis, clausulis, articulis, et conditionibus Vniuersis, approbandum, confirmandum, ratificandum, robur Autoritatis Ordinariae et perpetuae firmitatis pariter et Decretum desuper apponendum, praefatamq[ue] Aream, fundos, prata, Cauponam, cum suis domibus, aedificiis, et quibusuis aliis attinentiis et pertinentiis, Vna cum donatione eorundem, et cum principali summâ peccuniali, ac Censu, libertati et immunitati Ecclesiasticae adscribendum, incorporandum, inuiscerandum atq[ue] super huiusmodi Area, fundis, pratis, Cauponâ, Domibus et aliis aedificiis, attinentiisq[ue] et pertinentiis illorum Vniuersis, nec non praefatâ Capitali peccuniarum summâ, et censu, Ecclesiam Tituli S. Martini Episcopi et Confessoris, SS. Philippi et Iacobi Ap[ostol]orum, nec non SS. Appolloniae et Barbarae Virginum et Martyrum, et Conuentum Formalem, ac Monasterium seu Caenobium, tum et Hospitale pro infirmis Militibus, iuxta intentionem Fundatoris, nec non Religiosos Patres et Fratres dicti Ordinis Carmelitarum, antiquae Regularis obseruantiae, ad instar aliarum Ecclesiarum, et Conuentuum Regularium, et Ordinis ipsorum, in praefato suburbio Cracouien[si] Ciuitatis Leopolien[sis] Archidioecesis Nostrae, aliàs in eo loco, Vbi nunc sunt, erigendum, fundandum, dotariq[ue] facultatemq[ue], et licentiam ponendi, ac struendi Ecclesiam, et monasterium seu Caenobium formal[e], tum et Hospitale pro Militibus infirmis, eisdem religiosis Ordinis praedicti Carmelitarum de certa scientia N[ost]ra concedendum eoldemq[ue] ad illam, et illa introducendum, introductosq[ue] et intromissos, circa vsum et possessionem pacificam illorum, perpetuò manu tenendum et conseruandum esse duximus. Vti quidem approbamus, confirmamus, ratificamus, apponimus, adscribimus, incorporamus, inuisceramus, erigimus, fundamus, dotamus, concedimus, introducimus, manu tenemus, et conseruamus. Ita, ut ijdem Religiosi Pr[atr]es et Fr[atr]es Ordinis praefati, nunc et pro tempore existentes, iuxta leges, et consuetudinem, ac praescriptum Regularis Obseruantiae, et Decretorum congregationis SS. Concilii Tridentini Interpretum, in tranquillitate animi et Corporis, Altissimo liberè famulari valeant, et Curam animarum Hospitalis loci illius tantum habere possint, extunc prout ex nunc, et e contra, permittimus, et quibuscunq[ue] permitti debere Volumus ac statuimus. Insuper decernimus, et decernendo in perpetuum sancimus, Vt Ecclesia Parochialis loci seu Areae, et Domorum, seu fudorum praefatorum, attinentiarumq[ue], et pertinentiarum illorum Vniuersorum, super quibus Ecclesia et conuent[us], nec n[on] Hospitale recens per Nos est erecta, erecti, et erectum, ab eadem Ecclesia, et Conuentu, ac Hospitali, Vtpraefertur recens erectis, et illius Rectorib[us], ac Ministris, nullum praeiudicium, damnum, et diminutionem aut detractionem, in prouentib[us] suis ratione administrationis Sacramentorum, tum Voluntariorum q[ua]m necessariorum oblationum, Strenarum, et aliarum Obuentionum osuum et singulariu[m] aliqua in iuribus impedimenta Parochiali b[us] unq[uam] sentiat et patiatur. Quam Ecclesiam ei[us]que Rectores, ac Ministros, eiusdem iuri Parochiali, et antiquis consuetudinib[us], in toto et plenariè gaudere, potiri, et frui, per hanc N[ost]ram declarationem Volumus. Et si quandoque contrauentio aliqua ratione huiusmodi (quod De[us] auertat) euenerit, Ius contendendi coram Nobis et R[eve]rendissimis Successoribus Nostris eidem Comissariis vel Officialib[us], eide[m] Eccl[esi]ae perpetuò relinquimus, literasq[ue] approbationis, Confirmationis, Erectionis in formâ solita extradi mandamus. In quoru[m] fidem praesentes Sigillo N[ost]ro muniri mandauimus. Acta sunt haec Leopoli Russorum Die Mercurij Decima Septima Mensis Julij Anno D[omi]ni Millesimo Sexcentesimo Quinquagesimo Octauo Indictione Romanâ Vndecimâ, Pontificatus SS.mi D[omi]ni N[ost]ri D. Alexandri Diuina Prouidentia PAPAE eius nominis VII feliciter moderni Anno Quarto. Praesentibus, Ill[ust]ri et Adm[odum] R[eve]n[dis] D[omi]nis Stanislao de Goray Czuryło Praeposito, Vicario in spiritualib[us], et Officiali N[ost]ro G[e]n[er]ali, Iacobo Cawatt Leopolien[si] Canonico, Parocho Wiznianensi, et Excellente Mathia Kuczankowic Artium Magistro, Philosophiae in Academia Cracouiensi Doctore, Publico Sacra Authoritate Apostolica, et Actorum coram Nobis Notario, alijsque plurimis fide dignis. [Podpisy:] Joannes Tarnowski Archiep[iscop]us Leopolien[sis] m[anu] p[ropr]ia Stanislaus de Goray Czurylo Praepositus Vicarius in spiritualibus, et Officialis N[ost]ro G[e]n[er]ali, Iacobo Cawatt Canonico, Parocho Wiznianen[si] [notarial confirmation] Mathias Kuczankowic Philosophiae Doctor Publicus Sacra Authoritate Apostolica, et Actorum Curiae Illustr[issimi] ac Reverendiss[i]mi Archiepiscopi Administratoris Notarius [Verso:] [Nota 1:] Introductio P[at]rum Carmelitarum ad S. Martinum Leopoli. Illustrissimus Joannes Tarnowski Archiepiscopus Leopoliensis 1658. [Nota 2:] Anno 1658 A[rchidioecesis] 13tio [Zapiski relacji woźnego i aktu wprowadzenia / oblaty z lipca 1658 r.:] Die vero 28va Julii [...]