Gdańskie święte ustronia bł. Doroty Swertfeger

Małgorzata Parcheniak

doi:10.26142/stgd-2020-032

Published: 2021-03-06

Vol. 47 (2020)

Gdańsk’s holy places of secludedness of blessed Dorothy’s of Montau

Małgorzata Parcheniak

Gdańsk Studies

Section: Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2020-032

Abstract

Summary: Blessed Dorothy of Montau (1347 – 1394) is venerated as a blessed or a saint. According to the sources cited, blessed Dorothy lived in Gdańsk for almost twenty-eight (28) years, growing organically into recluse hermitage. Blessed Dorothy highly valued the grace of the daily renewal of the spirit (lat. renovatio spiritus, it.: rinnovazione dello spirito). As optimal places, in order to build a space of loneliness (lat. solitude) and conducive to the personal withdrawal (gr. anachoresis), she chose the four temples of Gdańsk: St. Mary's Church, church of St. Catherine, church of Dominicans and in the church of God’s Body. Each of these holy places of secludedness was a place of performing other, clearly dedicated to this place by herself, acts of devotion. Dorothy Swertfeger made haunting these holy places of secludedness as “a golden rule of conduct” in such a purposeful order, thanks to which she was able to perform family duties, save and store the hermit's treasure. In fact, she lived a semi-hermitic life on this path. Analysis of the sources cited showed that due to the stability of the practices and acts of contemplative life performed in these shelters, blessed Dorothy Swertfeger undertook the spiritual direction of Gdańsk’s citizens and of Pomeranians (Kashubians).

Keywords:

blessed Dorothy of Montau, charisma of blessed Dorothy of Montau, Gdańsk’s churches, holy places of secludedness, spiritual direction

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Parcheniak, M. (2021). Gdańsk’s holy places of secludedness of blessed Dorothy’s of Montau. Gdańsk Studies, 47, 197–212. https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2020-032

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