Karol Bołoz Antoniewicz - misjonarz, społecznik, pamiętnikarz

Abstract

The subject of the article is an approximation of the recollections of an extraordinary man that Karol Boloz Antoniewicz (1807-1852) was. In 1847, he made about fifteen missions in Tamow diocese in order to appease the agitated peasants after the Galician massacre. The memories from his missionary work are kept in the book entitled Wspomnienia misyjne z roku 1846 (Poznań 1955). In 1850, after the fire of Krakow, he came to the royal city and on its charred remnants he consoled the people. The precious sermons from that sojourn have been published for the first time by the Rev. Jan Badeni in Krakow in 1890, and they constitute an interesting remembrance for all those who are particularly interested in that period of history. Antoniewicz’s next memories date from the expedition to Silesia and Wielkopolska, where he went in 1851 and 1852. Antoniewicz put the accounts of those expeditions in the collection Pamiątka misji górnośląskiej odbytej roku 1851 (Piekary Niemieckie 1851). There he preached sermons and teachings which constitute another precious document allowing us to better learn the realities of life of the people at that time. A trait of Antoniewicz’s poetics is superimposing the poetics of a sermon over the subjective perspective of memories, thus a teaching addressed to a concrete recipient. Recollections have a very clear addressee. As a genre they do not have permanent indicators but they incorporate various consumer prose genres, such as, for example, a sermon. There is a variety of covered subjects jointly characterised by a structural feature which are sermon elements.