Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza
Church · Świnice Warckie · Łódź
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This brick church, built in 1859 and consecrated in 1882, was funded by local squire Kazimierz Karwowski and replaced a wooden 13th-century predecessor dedicated to St. Gotthard. It holds three Baroque altars and, since 2002, sanctuary status: Helena Kowalska, later canonized as Saint Faustina, was baptized here and received her first communion.
At age seven, during evening Vespers before the exposed Blessed Sacrament in this church, Helena Kowalska said she first heard God's voice calling her to a more perfect life. The wooden font where she was baptized in 1905 and the nineteenth-century confessional she used as a girl are still preserved inside. Fire shaped the building's history before the current one: a first wooden church raised around 1300 for Archbishop Jacob Świnka burned and was rebuilt in 1592, and a third church burned so soon after its 1828 consecration that the parish was folded into a neighboring one for thirty years. A new wing, begun in 2005 and consecrated on 23 August 2015, exactly 110 years after her birth and baptism, doubled the sanctuary's size to handle the pilgrim traffic that followed her canonization in 2000.
Practical
Groups are shown around by the sanctuary custodian or the Sisters of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy; visits should be arranged ahead of time.
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Common questions
- Why stop at Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza on a bike ride?
- This brick church, built in 1859 and consecrated in 1882, was funded by local squire Kazimierz Karwowski and replaced a wooden 13th-century predecessor dedicated to St. Gotthard. It holds three Baroque altars and, since 2002, sanctuary status: Helena Kowalska, later canonized as Saint Faustina, was baptized here and received her first communion.
- Where is Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza?
- Kościół pw. Świętego Kazimierza is in Świnice Warckie, Łódź (Poland).