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Monastery and church on the Karczówka Hill

Local name: Klasztor i kościół na Wzgórzu Karczówka

Located on a hill Karczówka monastery belonging to the o. Bernardine includes the building of the monastery church of St. Charles Borromeo, the chapel of Our Lady of Fatima, as well as outbuildings. At the northern wall of the monastery you can see the mass grave of insurgents from 1863. By appointment, you can also enter the church tower. Monastery and other buildings were funded by Marcin Szyszkowski, Bishop of Cracow, as a votive offering for the Kielce avoid the plague in 1622. The first building was a church, whose original shape differed little from the present. In 1629 it was imported to Karczówka monks, rebuilt rectory and other buildings adapting them to the needs of the monastery. Another expansion took place in the eighteenth century, when it built outbuildings, walls with towers and the gate. Simple blocks monastery buildings crowned with Baroque domes. The Baroque style monastery are stairs with red and white sandstone. Nave church is an early Baroque altar and other items in the Rococo style. Rococo altar is also in the chapel, where he placed shrouded in legend, made of lead ore nugget statue of St. Barbara - the patron saint of miners. Since 1957. In the monastery managed by Pallottines, who lead the parish and novitiate.

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    Karczówkowska 1 Kielce , Poland