Kościół pw. Świętego Bernardyna ze Sieny
You’re approaching the Bernardines Church—Kościół św. Bernardyna ze Sieny—an old Roman Catholic conventual church and monastery linked to the Bernardines name. Here, the story begins with Franciscan Observant reform reaching Kraków in 1453, when John of Capistrano arrived on 28 August 1453 at the invitation of King Casimir IV Jagiellon and Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki. Ten days later, a monastery dedicated to St. Bernardino of Siena was founded in Stradom, with Oleśnicki donating the construction site. The earliest complex began as wooden buildings, then shifted quickly to a brick Gothic church. It was later destroyed during the Swedish Deluge, and the surviving chapter of this site is Baroque: the church was rebuilt as a Baroque temple in 1659–1680, designed by Krzysztof Mieroszewski. …
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