Kościół pw. Świętego Wincentego à Paulo
This church is shaped by repeated cycles of destruction and renewal. Before the present building, a church of St. Philip and St. James is recorded here in 1373. It was then damaged by fire in 1528, rebuilt, and destroyed again when Swedish forces struck in 1655; the restored church was consecrated in 1667 by Bishop Mikołaj Oborski. Another fire came in 1755, and after a further rebuild the site was ultimately cleared in 1801 by order of the Austrian authorities, after which the grounds served as a temporary municipal cemetery. In 1861, the Missionaries of Vincent de Paul arrived in Kleparz and became owners of the parcels on Św. Filipa two years later. The current Gothic Revival, designed by Filip Pokutyński, was built in 1875–1877, with the formal consecration carried out on 2 September 1877 by Apostolic Nuncio in Vienna Lodovico Jacobini. …
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