Act of Archbishop Wojciech Koryciński transferring the Augustinian monastery to the Church of St. Anne in Lviv

[Leaf 1r – Title:] BOOK OF FOUNDATIONS OF THE LVIV CONVENT OF THE AUGUSTINIAN FATHERS and VARIOUS RECORDS and PROFESSIONS of the Congregation [...] at St. Anne's. [Different hand:] 784 [Leaf 2r, pagination at top: 2] [Archiepiscopal coat of arms] In the Name of the Lord Amen ALBERT of Pilica KORYCIŃSKI, by the Grace of God and the Apostolic See ARCHBISHOP OF LVIV, GENERAL PROVOST OF MIECHÓW To all and singular whom it may concern, by this Our Letter, intended to have force for all time in eternal memory of the matter, We announce and deem it worthy that what is piously done for the glory of Almighty God and the increase of His worship in the expansion of the churches of Our Archdiocese, and for the salvation of souls redeemed by the precious Blood of Our Lord JESUS Christ by Christ's faithful, pious priests and religious men, should be inviolably crowned with perpetual testimonies of writing. Since, therefore, the religious and most venerable father brother Mikołaj Lassota, Prior of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine of the convent outside the walls of the city of Lviv, on behalf of his convent, has represented to Us how they, by the special grace and privilege of the late Most Serene Władysław IV, invincible and most fortunate King of Poland, and also by the permission and erection of the late most reverend Stanisław Grochowski, Archbishop of Lviv, Our predecessor, possessing a certain place and land in the Halych Suburb of the same city, commonly called Mostki, granted for the church and convent of his order, and having a church and formal convent erected and built on this place, several times due to the hostile Cossack-rebellious invasion and the last Muscovite one, as they were adjacent and closest to the ditches, ramparts, walls, and bastions [Leaf 2v:] of the city of Lviv, were destroyed by fire along with the church and all structures and buildings. And hence they went to the Most Serene Prince MICHAEL, by the grace of God King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, etc., happily reigning, through the most illustrious envoys of the Ruthenian Voivodeship to the General Crown Sejm, requesting that they might be moved to another place, more convenient and safer and further removed from this city, and on it might erect and build a church and convent for the fathers and brothers of their order anew, and according to their state and religious vocation serve God the Best and Highest immaculately and contemplate heavenly things more freely. And when they obtained special consent for this from His Royal Majesty through the intercession of the most distinguished and most reverend dignitaries of the Kingdom, and were recommended by His Royal Majesty's letter to Us, as well as to the most illustrious and most venerable prelates and canons of Our metropolitan church, and also to the noble and distinguished mayor, councilors, and the entire magistracy of the city of Lviv, and received from the same noble council magistracy land and a place outside the walls of the same city in the Krakow Suburb, on which there exists a brick church under the invocation of Saint Anne along with other buildings, structures, appurtenances, and all accessories – they turned to Us with due diligence that We might grant Our metropolitan ordinary consent for the above and assign to them and the entire Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine the said Church of Saint Anne along with the land, buildings, structures, dwellings, and all other appurtenances and accessories, and approve, ratify, and confirm all and singular of this by Our ordinary authority. WE, however, after mature reflection of Our mind, desiring to provide everyone with an appropriate legal remedy, and above all desiring to provide in time from the heart for the public need of the defense of this city, so that it might not be captured due to nearby obstacles, and desiring to make [complete?] compensation to the aforementioned hermit fathers of the Order of Saint Augustine for such great damages suffered for the salvation of the entire city during several threatening dangers due to enemy invasion, finally decided that the request and plea of these fathers, as just [Leaf 3r, pagination at top: 3] and consistent with equity, should be satisfied. However, so that by Our swift consent to the above it might not appear that We are causing prejudice to anyone, first of all, according to the custom and form observed in such matters, We ordered the issuance of citation letters [crida] with the force of a general summons against all and each individually who might claim a contrary legal title and interest, jointly or separately. Finally, on this day, as We sat before the tribunal for the administration of justice, the aforementioned most venerable father Lassota, Prior of the Lviv convent of the said order, appearing in person, having presented the crida letters separately expedited, executed by posting on the doors of the churches: the metropolitan in the city and Saint Anne outside the walls of the city of Lviv by the venerable Andrzej Wojnarowicz, priest, accused of non-appearance all and each individually summoned by the said crida letters, and those not appearing, and in their absence filed with due diligence and demanded that the grant or donation of the Church of Saint Anne outside the walls of the city of Lviv, made by the special benevolence of His Most Serene Royal Majesty, Our Gracious Lord, as well as with the consent of the noble and distinguished Lviv council magistracy, as the lawful patrons and collators of the same church, for the benefit of the entire order and its convent, along with all and singular rights of the same church, profits, revenues, incomes, gardens, appurtenances, and all accessories long belonging and pertaining to this church, be approved and confirmed, assigned, united, incorporated, and annexed, and that on the same land and place a church and convent of his order be ordered to be erected and built anew, and that letters of approval and confirmation of the union or incorporation and annexation and erection and foundation be ordered to be drawn up and issued in the usual form of law. We, however, ALBERT of Pilica KORYCIŃSKI, Archbishop of Lviv, seeing the crida letters duly announced in Our cathedral church from the pulpit before the people gathered for the hearing of the service and by posting on the doors of the same church, as well as Saint Anne's, having reviewed the letters of grant or donation of His Royal Majesty, seeing also the consent of the noble and distinguished Lviv council magistracy, having previously sought the advice of the most illustrious and most venerable prelates and canons of Our cathedral church, Our brothers, and having weighed and considered that all formalities from the provision of the constitutions of the Apostolic See, as well as the decrees of the Holy Council of Trent regarding the erection of new monasteries, have been fulfilled and announced, above all all and singular who from the opposite side had some right and [Leaf 3v:] interest, jointly or separately, claimed pretensions to the said Church of Saint Anne and its land, houses, and gardens, and summoned by the said crida letters did not appear nor hinder the above, We deemed them disobedient to the law, and in their absence, and also on the basis of serious disputes of the intervening parties, which are known from Our acts, as is more broadly contained in the decree issued in the current year on the seventeenth day of the month of April, We decided that the grant or donation of the place and land, as well as the Church of Saint Anne itself, made for the benefit of the aforementioned fathers and brothers of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine of the Lviv convent, should be accepted, approved, and confirmed, and the aforementioned Church of Saint Anne along with the land, houses, and gardens and all and singular rights of the same church, profits, revenues, incomes, appurtenances, and all accessories long belonging and pertaining to this church – assigned, united, incorporated, and annexed, and on the same land and place a church and convent of the said order be erected and built anew, and those fathers and brothers of the Order of Hermits of Saint Augustine be moved and introduced from the place where they currently reside to the same holy church, as also having invoked the Name of CHRIST we accept, approve, confirm, ratify, assign, unite, incorporate, annex, erect, found, move, and introduce. And so that in the same place and church called Saint Anne the religious hermit fathers of the Order of Saint Augustine, present and future, according to the laws, custom, and provision of their rule, as well as the decrees of the Sacred Congregation of Interpreters of the Holy Council of Trent, may freely serve the Highest in peace of mind, we henceforth permit and ordain, with the rights of the parish church of this place and the said Church of Saint Anne and its accessories and appurtenances remaining inviolate. Namely, that the convent of the hermit fathers of the Order of Saint Augustine and its priors, subpriors, sacristans, and their deputies, as well as other officials and servants, should not cause or inflict any prejudice, obstacle, damage, or [Leaf 4r, pagination at top: 4:] any diminution whatsoever in the parish incomes and revenues by reason of the administration of church sacraments, both voluntary and necessary, and other parish obventions, which we wish to be considered as expressed here, to the parish church at any time. Finally, all and individual deficiencies, if any have occurred in any way in the above by law or by fact, we supplement by Our ordinary authority, and we order the necessary letters of erection and foundation to be drawn up and issued in the usual form. Done and given in Lviv in Ruthenia, in the Year of Our Redeemed Salvation one thousand six hundred and seventy-first, of the ninth Roman indiction, during the pontificate of Our Most Holy Lord, Lord CLEMENT, by Divine Providence POPE of that name the Tenth, in the first year, on the day of Friday, the seventeenth of the month of April. In the presence of the most illustrious and most venerable: Paweł Józef Leszczyński, Doctor of Sacred Theology, Dean of Kamieniec, Provost of Kołomyja; Marcin Rzechowski, Apostolic Protonotary, Dean and Provost of Rohatyn; Mikołaj Zychyni, Doctor of Both Laws, Pastor of Halych; Kasper Czekajski – canons of Our Lviv cathedral church; and the noble and distinguished Maciej Kuczankowicz, Doctor of Both Laws, Secretary of His Royal Majesty, Notary by Apostolic Authority and Chancellor of the affairs of Our curia, and many other credible witnesses. Albert Koryciński, Archbishop of Lviv, by his own hand Marcin Rzechowski, Apostolic Protonotary, Provost of Rohatyn, Canon of Lviv, by his own hand Maciej Kuczankowicz, Doctor of Both Laws, Notary by Apostolic Authority, Chancellor of the affairs of the curia of the Most Serene and Most Reverend [Archbishop] of Lviv, by his own hand [Leaf 4v – Notes and seal:] 2125. Tab. [Round stamp:] ARCHIVE OF ANCIENT RECORDS OF THE CITY OF LVIV Book of Privileges volume 1. Page 165, number 44. On September 20, [1]794 entered into the books. This instrument, after prior consent, was entered into the Lviv city books, in the Book of Privileges, volume I, item 62 / no. 44, and in the Book of Heritage, volume XXIV, p. 25, noted for the parish church under the title of St. Anne in the Krakow Suburb under no. 284 2/4. November 1, 1794. Kazimierz Medyński, Regent of the Lviv city books [Paper-wafer seal with the coat of arms of Lviv (a wall with three towers and a gate with a lion) on a reddish wax background]

[Karta 1r – Tytuł:] LIBER FUNDATIONIS CON[VEN]T[U]S LEOPOLIENSIS PATRUM AUGUSTINIANORUM et VARIARUM INSCRIPTIONUM atq[ue] PROFESSIONUM Cong[regationis] [...] ad S. Annam. [Inna ręka:] 784 [Karta 2r, paginacja u góry: 2] [Herb arcybiskupi] In Nomine Domini Amen ALBERTUS de Pilca KORYCINSKI Dei & Apostolicæ Sedis Gratiâ ARCHIEPISCOPUS LEOPOLIENSIS PRÆPOSITUS GENERALIS MIECHOVIENSIS [U]niuersis & singulis quorum interest præsentibus Literis Nostris ad perpetuam rei memoriam valituris Significamus & dignum fore reputamus, vt ea quæ ad laudem Dei Omnipotentis & cultum ipsius in Ecclesiis Archidiœcesis Nostræ Ampliandis, Salutemq[ue] Animarum pretioso Sanguine Domini N[ost]ri JESU Christi redemptarum à Christi fidelibus & pijs Sacerdotibus ac Religiosis Viris deuotè geruntur, perpetuis Literarum inuiolabiliter coronentur Munimentis. Ac proinde cum Nobis Religiosus et admodum R[eueren]dus Pater Frater Nicolaus Lassota Ordinis Eremitarum Sancti Augustini Conuentus extra Muros Civitatis Leopoliensis Prior pro parte Conuentus sui exposuisset, qualiter ipsi ex Speciali Gratia & Priuilegio Divæ olim memoriæ Serenissimi Vladislai Quarti Regis Poloniæ Victoriosissimi et felicissimi tum ex admissione ac Erectione Reuerendissimi olim Stanislai Grochowski Archiepiscopi Leopoliensis Prædecessoris Nostri, Locum certum et Fundum in Suburbio Haliciensi Civitatis huius vulgò Mostki nuncupatum, pro Ecclesia et Conuentu Ordinis sui concessum possidentes in eoq[ue] loco Ecclesiam et Conuentum Formalem extructum, et ædificatum habentes aliquoties propter Incursionem hostilem Cosacoboythicam et postremam Moschouiticam vti folsis [s!], vallib[us], Muris et Propugnaculis [Karta 2v:] Civitatis Leopoliensis contigui et proximè adiacentes igne cum Ecclesia, & omnibus Structuris ac ædificijs sublati fuerant. Exindeque recursum ad Serenissimum Principem MICHAELEM Dei Gratia Regem Poloniæ, Magnum Ducem Lithuaniæ etc. feliciter regnantem fecerunt per Illustres et Magnificos, Palatinatus Russiæ ad Comitia Regni Generalia Nuntios supplicantes, vt in alium Locum commodiorem ac tutiorem, & à Civitate hac remotiorem transferri, in eoq[ue] Ecclesiam et Conuentum pro Patribus et Fratribus Ordinis sui de Nouo extruere, et exædificare possint, ac secundum Statum, et vocationem suam Religiosam Deo Optimo Maximo integrè famulari, et cælestia liberius contemplari valeant. Et cum à Regia Maiestate sua specialem ad id Consensum per interuentionem Excellentissimorum ac Reverendissimorum Regni Procerum impetrassent et per Literas Regiæ suæ Maiestatis Nobis, tum Illustribus et admodum Reuerendis Prælatis & Canonicis Ecclesiæ Nostræ Metropolitanæ nec non Nobilibus et Spectabilibus Proconsuli, Consulibus, totique Magistratui Civitatis Leopoliensis commendati essent, ab eodemque Nob[i]li Magistratu Consulari, Fundum et Locum extra Muros Civitatis eiusdem in Suburbio Cracoviensi, in quo Ecclesia sub Titulo Sanctæ Annæ Muro extructa existit vna cum alijs ædificijs, Structuris, adiacentijs, et pertinentijs quibusuis obtinuissent supplicari Nobis debita cum instantia fecerunt, Ut super præmissis Consensum Nostrum Metropolitanum Ordinarium præbere, illisq[ue], et toti Eremitarum Sancti Augustini Ordini, Ecclesiam præfatam Sanctæ Annæ vnà cum Fundo, ædificijs structuris Mansionibus, et omnibus alijs adiacentijs et pertinentijs applicare, eaq[ue] omnia & singula Authoritate N[ost]ra Ordinaria, approbare, ratificare & confirmare dignaremur. NOS verò matura animi Nostri deliberatione præhabita, vnidaique [=unicuique?] de opportuno Iuris remedio prouidere volentes, et vel maximè Necessitati publicæ defensionis Civitatis huius, ne aliquando proximis impedimentis expugnetur, mature prospicere ex animo cupientes, præfatisq[ue] Patribus Eremitis Ordinis Sancti Augustini, aliquam tantorum damnorum, ob Conseruationem totius Civitatis aliquoties ingruentibus periculis ex hostili Incursione perpessorum to[talem?] compensationem facere volentes tandem petitioni & supplicationi eorundem Patrum vti iustæ [Karta 3r, paginacja u góry: 3] & rationi consonæ annuendum esse, duximus. Ne tamen per celerem Nostrum ad præmissa assensum, aliquod cuipiam præiudicium inferre videamur ante omnia iuxta morem & formam circa talia obseruari solitam Literas Cridæ in vim Citationis generalis contra omnes & singulos siue ex aduerso Ius & Interesse, coniunctim vel diuisim se habere prætendentes extradendas esse decreuimus. Tandem die hodierna coram Nobis pro Tribunali & Iuribus reddendis sedentibus personaliter comparens prænominatus Reueren[dus] P[ate]r Lassota Prior Conuentus Leopolien[sis] Ordinis prædicti, oblatis Cridæ Literis separatim expeditis, per affixionem Valuis Ecclesiarum, Metropolitanæ in Vrbe, & Sanctæ Annæ extra Muros Civitatis Leopoliensis, per Venerabilem Andream Woynarowicz Presbyterum, executis Contumaciam omnium & singulorum dictis Cridæ Literis Citatorum et non comparentium accusauit & in Contumaciam eorum Concessionem seu Donationem Ecclesiæ Sanctæ Annæ extra Muros Ciuitatis Leopoliensis ex speciali Liberalitate Sacræ Regiæ Maiestatis Domini Nostri Clementissimi tum & Nobilis ac Spectabilis Magistratus Consularis Leopoliensis vti eiusdem Ecclesiæ legitimorum Patronorum & Collatorum consensu in rem totius Ordinis & Conuentus sui factam cum omnibus & singulis eiusdem Ecclesiæ Iuribus, fructibus, prouentibus, reditibus, hortis, adiacentijs & pertinentijs quibusuis, ad eandem Ecclesiam ex antiquo spectantibus & pertinentibus, approbari, & confirmari, applicari, vniri, incorporari & inuiscerari, ac in eodem Fundo & Loco, Ecclesiam de nouo, & Conuentum sui Ordinis erigi & extrui mandari, Literasque Approbationis & Confirmationis Vnionis seu Incorporationis & Inuiscerationis ac Erectionis & Fundationis in forma Iuris solita decerni & relaxari, debita cum instantia petijt & postulauit. Nos verò ALBERTUS de Pilca KORYCINSKI Archiepiscopus Leopoliensis visis Cridæ Literis in Ecclesia Nostra Cathedrali ex Ambona coram populo ad Diuina audienda congregato, & per affixionem Valuis Ecclesiæ eiusdem tum & Sanctæ Annæ debitè publicatis reuisis Literis Concessionis seu Donationis Regiæ Maiestatis, viso itidem Nobilis & Spectabilis Magistratus Consularis Leopoliensis consensu, communicato in primis cum Illustribus & admodum Reuerendis Prælatis & Canonicis Ecclesiæ Nostræ Cathedralis Fratribus Nostris consilio eoq[ue] attento & considerato, quod omnes solennitates ex præscripto Constitutionum Sanctæ Sedis Apostolicæ, nec non SS: Concilij Tridentini Decretorum de erigendis Nouis Monasterijs laterum & promulgatorum præcesserunt ante omnia Omnes & Singulos sua ex aduerso Ius & [Karta 3v:] Interesse aliquod, communiter vel diuisim, ad præfatam Sanctæ Annæ Ecclesiam, eiusque Fundum & Domos ac Hortos se habere prætendentes, dictis Cridæ Literis Citatost et non comparentes nec præmissa impedientes, Contumaces suadente Iustitia reputauimus, in eorumque Contumaciam, & alias ex sery[i]s Partium Interuenientium Controuersijs, de quibus in Actis N[ost]ris constat prout aliàs in Decreto Anno currenti die decimâ septimâ Mensis Aprilis lato fusius continetur Concessionem seu Donationem Loci & Fundi, tum & ipsius Sanctæ Annæ Ecclesiæ in rem memoratorum Patrum & Fratrum Ordinis Eremitarum Sancti Augustini Conuentus Leopoliensis factam admittend[am], approbandum & confirmandum, præfatamq[ue] Sanctæ Annæ Ecclesiam, vnà cum Fundo & domibus ac Hortis omnibusque & singulis eiusdem Ecclesiæ Iuribus, fructibus, prouentibus reditibus adiacentijs, & pertinentijs quibusuis ad eandem Ecclesiam ex antiquo spectantibus & pertinentibus applicand[am], vniend[am], incorporand[am], & inuiscerand[am], ac in eodem Fundo et Loco Ecclesiam de Nouo & Conuentum præfati Ordinis erigen[dum] & extruen[dum] eosdemq[ue] Patres & Fratres Ordinis Eremitarum Sancti Augustini ex Loco in quo ad præsens existunt ad eandem Sanctam Ecclesiam transferend[os] & introducend[os] esse duximus prout CHRISTI Nomine inuocato admittimus, approbamus, confirmamus, ratificamus applicamus, vnimus, incorporamus, inuisceramus, erigimus, fundamus, transferimus, & introducimus. Et vt in eodem Loco & Ecclesia Sanctæ Annæ nuncupat[a] Religiosi Patres Eremitæ Ordinis Sancti Augustini nunc et pro tempore existentes iuxta Leges & Consuetudinem ac præscriptum Regulæ suæ, tum & Decretorum S. Congregationis SS: Concilij Tridentini Interpretum in tranquillitate animi Altissimo liberè famulari valeant ex nunc permittimus & statuimus Saluis Iuribus Ecclesiæ Parochialis Loci, & Ecclesiæ præfatæ Sanctæ Annæ illiusq[ue] attinentiarum & pertinentiarum reseruatis. Nè videlicet Conuentus Patrum Eremitarum Ordinis Sancti Augustini eiusque Priores Suppriores, Sacristæ, & eorum Locatenentes alijq[ue] Officiales & Ministri vllum præiudicium, impedimentum, damnum, vel [Karta 4r, paginacja u góry: 4:] diminutionem aliquam in Prouentibus & Obuentionibus Parochialib[us], ratione administrationis Sacramentorum Ecclesiasticorum, tam voluntariorum, quam necessariorum, aliarumque Obuentionum Parochialium quæ his pro expressis haberi volumus Ecclesiæ Parochiali vllo vnquam tempore faciant, & inferant. Ad extremum omnes & singulos defectus, si qui de Iure aut de facto in præmissis quomodolibet interuenerint, Authoritate Nostra Ordinaria supplemus, Literasque Erectionis & Fundationis desuper necessarias in forma solita decernimus & relaxamus. Actum & Datum Leopoli in Russia Anno Reparatæ Salutis Nostræ Millesimo Sexcentesimo Septuagesimo Primo Indictione Romana Nona Pontificatus SS.mi Domini Nri Dni CLEMENTIS Divina Providentia PAPÆ eius Nominis Decimi Anno Primo Die verò Veneris Decima septima Mensis Aprilis. Præsentibus Illustribus & Admodum Reverendis Paulo Iosepho Lesczyński Sacræ Theologiæ Doctore Decano Camenecensi, Præposito Kolomyensi, Martino Rzechowski Protonotario Apostolico Decano & Præposito Rohatynensi, Nicolao Zychyni Iuris Vtriusque Doctore, Parocho Haliciensi, Gasparo Czekayski Canonicis Ecclesiæ N[ost]ræ Cathedralis Leopoliensis & Nobili ac Excellente Mathia Kuczankowicz Vtriusque Iuris Doctore Regiæ Maiestatis Secretario S. Auth[orita]te Apl[ic]a Notario & Causarum Curiæ N[ost]ræ Cancellario alijsque quam plurimis fide dignis. Albertus Korycinski Archiep[iscop]us Leopoliensis m[anu] p[ropr]ia Martinus Rzechowski P[ro]t[onotarius] N[otarius] Ap[osto]licus Præp[ositus] R[ohatynensis] C[anonicus] L[eopoliensis] m[anu] p[ropr]ia Mathias Kuczankowicz J[uris] U[triusque] Doctor S[acra] Auth[ori]te Aplic[a] Notarius Causarum Curiæ Ill[ustrissi]mi & R[everen]diss[i]mi Leopoliensis Cancellarius m[anu] p[ropr]ia [Karta 4v – Noty i pieczęć:] 2125. Tab. [Pieczątka okrągła:] ARCHIWUM AKT DAWNYCH MIASTA LWOWA Libr: Privil. Tom: 1mo Pag: 165. Nro 44. d. 20. 7bris 794 ingross. Praesens Instrumentum praevio consensu apud Leopoldi Tabulas civicas Libro Priv: Tom: I. p.cto 62 / n. 44. ingrossat[um], et in Libro Haer: Tom. XXIV p. 25. ad Ecclesiam Parochialem Titt: S. Annae in Cracov: Suburbio Nro 284. 2/4. praenotatum est. Die 1. Nov: 1794. Cas: Medyński Tab[ulae] C[ivicae] L[eopoliensis] Regens [Pieczęć papierowo-opłatkowa z herbem Lwowa (mur z trzema wieżami i bramą z lwem) na czerwonawym podkładzie woskowym]