Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 296 parish clergy, especially during feast days. They also had their own house of studies. The congregation was dissolved in 1819. 165 In 1677, the Dominican Sisters received the Church of the Ce- nacle, and the Marians received the Chapel of St. Martin, together with a house and a piece of land. 166 In the same year, at the initiative and at the request of the Dominicans, certain changes took place in the administration of the churches in the city. The Dominicans were experiencing difficulties with the promotion of the rosary devotions at Mount Zion, located at some distance from the city, and asked for a change of location. After consultations with the bishop and the Marians, they took over the Chapel of St. Martin and changed its title to that of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At that time, the Dominican Sisters moved to Mount Zion, and the Marians received the Cenacle. The Dominican Sisters came here from Kamieniec Podolski, which had fallen into the hands of the Turks on August 26, 1672. They were joined by Sophia Potkanska and her daughter Columba, sent there by Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski. The Dominican Sisters oc- cupied themselves with the education of the daughters of the no- bility. Their monastery was located southwest of the Cenacle on Mount Zion. In 1794, it was destroyed by a fire and abandoned. In 1808, the sisters returned and lived here until 1830 in a partially rebuilt monastery with a wooden chapel. Afterwards, they moved to Piotrkow. 167 Father Wyszynski states that after Poland had recaptured Kamie- niec Podolski, on September 22, 1699, the Dominican Sisters re- turned to their own monastery there. Since the Turks had placed their sign of a crescent moon on the churches and the towers of the fortress, the Poles placed the statue of Mary Immaculate on it. The Muslims, upset at such a profanation of their sign, offered large sums of money and begged the Poles to remove either the statue of the Blessed Mother or their sign. They did not obtain anything, and the Turks who walked past these buildings had to look in shame at their sign under her feet. 168