Lumen 2018

Supper, recalled to everyone’s mind by the table standing in the middle of the church. From here, they would begin their walk to the particular Stations of the Lord’s Passion. First, they went to the Mount of Olives above Kedron (today the area behind the bar- racks), then they proceeded along Dominikanska Street to Pilate’s Chapel, afterwards, from the church at Gorka, along Kalwaryjska Street and the station chapels, to the hill of the Crucifixion of Our Lord Jesus near the parish church. This devotion continued almost till the time of the partitions, when the pilgrimages stopped and the shrine went into decline. 176 The foundation document of November 22, 1677, 177 granted the Marians the right of ownership to both the Church of the Cenacle, the household buildings, and the surrounding grounds. The church was built in 1674 in the southeastern part of the outskirts of Nowa Jerozolima, according to the design and dimensions of the Cenacle at Mount Zion in the Holy Land. It was a stone construction, 14 x 14 meters, with a wooden ceiling, a roof of wooden shingles with a small steeple where an ave-bell was installed. It had eleven small win- dows, a large main door, and a smaller one on the side, leading to the monastery. Inside were three simple, little altars, a small organ, and a large marble slab in the image of the one at which Jesus insti- tuted the Holy Eucharist. The entire church was decorated with stat- ues and paintings that referred to the Last Supper. 178 Some time later, a monastery of half-timbered walls with a roof of wooden shingles was built behind the church on its left and southern side. It had ten cells in which the confreres lived. 179 After the cassation of the Congregation of Marians in the 19 th century, the church and monastery fell into ruin and were to be torn down. But the church itself was saved by Fr. Bernard Pielasinski 180 who resided at Gora Kalwaria for the last 37 years of his life as a chaplain dedicated to sheltering the elderly and infirm. He took great care of the Cenacle, most especially of Fr. Papczynski’s grave. In the years 1890–1891, he thoroughly restored it with the help of the local residents and thanks to the generosity of Countess Potocka 299 Foundation of a New Religious Order