Abstract

In 1918 the Salesians bought a building in Kraków (Dębniki district) with the possession of terrestrial surface of 5.26 hectares. From the outset, the building functioned as a house for training azinnedei young brothers. The property is located in the parish of St. Stanisław Kostka, entrusted to the Salesians. For several years the philosophy student house was located here, but since 1931 also the student house theological. Both student residences also carried out their training activities during the occupation Nazi. For a certain period after these Salesian clerics attended the Université Jagiellonian of Kraków and obtained the title of „magisterium”. Since 1975 this academic title obtained at the Catholic University of Lublin and completed in 1993 at the Pontifical Theological Academy in Krakow, established by John Paul II. After the division of the Polish provinces (1980) the Salesian Major Seminary in Kraków it has become common for the two provinces of southern Poland. In the years 1983-1989 they built new educational and logistics buildings. Thoughtful attention to the most effective training advised to establish two Salesian communities: the post-novitiate and the theological studentate (1989).