Kościół pw. Świętego Michała Archanioła i Świętego Stanisława Biskupa
At this “Church on the Rock” in Kraków—Kościół na Skałce—your walk connects political power to religious punishment. The shrine commemorates the martyrdom of Saint Stanisław of Szczepanów: the legend places his killing here in 1079 by the order of King Bolesław II the Bold, after which the king was exiled and the bishop later canonized. The present conventual church belongs to the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit and dates to 1751, when baroque decoration was completed after earlier phases. Long before the Baroque period, the site changed hands under Polish kings: the 1472 shrine was placed in the possession of Pauline Fathers, after King Casimir III replaced an earlier Romanesque church with a Gothic one. Beneath the church, the crypt operates as a Polish “National Panthéon,” where figures such as diplomat-historian Jan Długosz (1415–1480) and poet-geographer Wincenty Pol (1807–1872) are buried. …
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