{"id":25830,"date":"2022-08-02T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marekkuchcinski.pl\/?p=25830"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T11:59:20","slug":"wielcy-ludzie-kosciola-w-europie-karpat-podsumowanie-konferencji-przemyskiego-towarzystwa-kulturalnego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marekkuchcinski.pl\/en\/wydarzenia\/wielcy-ludzie-kosciola-w-europie-karpat-podsumowanie-konferencji-przemyskiego-towarzystwa-kulturalnego\/","title":{"rendered":"Great men of the Church in Carpathian Europe - summary of the conference of the Przemy\u015bl Cultural Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

On July 30, the 3rd conference in the series \"Events and People of the 19th and 20th Centuries - Przemysl, the Przemysl Land and the Subcarpathian Region in the Carpathian Europe\", organized by the Przemysl Cultural Society, which was reactivated after 30 years and originated from the independent culture environment, took place in Kalwaria Paclawska in Podkarpacie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event was hosted by the President of PTK, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Marek Kuchcinski, and a lecture on prominent people of the Church and their influence on the perception of values in Central Europe was given by Prof. W\u0142odzimierz Bernacki, Dr. Imre Moln\u00e1r of Hungary, Dr. Jan Musia\u0142 and Guardian Fr. Krzysztof Hura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 - This whole environment, this array of different initiatives, ideas and environments that took place in the great Solidarity movement, here in the Przemysl region, is getting a little blurred. I think we should continue this work. That's first of all. And secondly, it's also important to think about the future, so to bring out the lives of people, figures, outstanding people, people who are forgotten or underestimated,\" said Marek Kuchcinski. - Characters such as Archbishop Ignacy Tokarczuk, Father Wenanty Katarzyniec, J\u00e1nos Esterh\u00e1zy shaped moral attitudes in Central Europe. Our part of Europe is a great intellectual wealth and the strength that faith gives us. It is a tradition that we must proudly preserve. We need authority, love, respect, humility, justice, relationship building. We need hope. That's why we return to the stories of people who are moral guideposts,\" the Speaker added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

- To speak today of the outstanding personalities of the Church in the 19th century is to speak of a time when most of the nations of that part of the world were not destined to have a state existence, is to speak of figures who enjoyed authority. Today in Western Europe, it would be difficult to understand why these personalities are still so relevant to us today. They were the ones who built a sense of identity and what we call tradition,\" argued Prof. Wlodzimierz Bernacki. He also recalled that our intellectual elite was brutally destroyed not only during the partitions, but also after the war, under communism. After 89, groups emerged in the countries of our part of Europe that sought to return to authorities, to a system of values of fundamental importance. At the same time, he outlined the danger of Western European thinking about authority as a path to authoritarianism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

- Polish-Hungarian friendship is a gift from God and sacred, just as sacred is the land of Galicia, where 70,000 Hungarian soldiers rest,\" began the lecture by Dr. Imre Moln\u00e1r. It was from Galicia that J\u00e1nos Esterh\u00e1zy, the son of a Hungarian aristocrat and a Polish countess, whose stance expresses Christian and national identity - who, in 1939, when encouraged to turn the party into a Nazi one, replied: Our sign is the cross, not the swastika. By the same token, Esterh\u00e1zy warned that a nation that strips God from its traditions is doomed to decline. After the September defeat of Poland, he organized the transfer of Polish soldiers to Hungary. After the war, he was exiled to Soviet gulags and later confined to a Czechoslovak prison for life, and died of exhaustion in 1957.<\/p>\n\n\n\n