Lumen 2018
S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 300 of Wilanow. In 1891, he received permission from the local Ordi- nary, Archbishop Vincent Popiel, 181 for the blessing of the restored church. 182 A complete overhaul and a change to the interior decor, according to a design by architect Marian Szymanowski, took place in 1962. In the following few years, the church received three new bells (the last one in 1965) and a large painting of the Last Supper by Mary Neuman Hiszpanska, a masterpiece of European art and a prize-win- ner at exhibitions in Paris and Venice. In 1985, a 3-meter-high stone sculpture of Fr. Papczynski by An- drew Koss of Warsaw was installed in front of the Cenacle. A spacious square on which religious services can be held was cre- ated on the grounds of the church (1966), a house for the curator was built in 1973, an outdoor altar for the 300 th Anniversary of the Congregation of Marian Fathers (1973), and Stations of the Cross by Anne Grocholska (1985-1988). The Cenacle is home to historic relics of religious art, among oth- ers, an icon of the Blessed Mother with the Infant Jesus (a copy of the Piarist icon from the end of the 17 th century) painted on a hand- hammered sheet of metal, and paintings depicting: Divine Provi- dence, dating back to the middle of the 18 th century; the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, painted by a Marian, Fr. John Niezabitowski, around 1770; and Fr. Papczynski as intercessor for the souls in Purgatory, dating back to the middle of the 18 th cen- tury, probably by the same artist. There are also several wooden stat- ues at the Cenacle: Christ on the Cross, The Good Shepherd, Mary Immaculate, St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus, St. Louis King of France — all of them executed in the style of folk Baroque from the middle of the 18 th century. On the outside wall of the church, there is a limestone sculpture of Christ in the tomb, commissioned by Bishop Wierzbowski (ca.1675), placed in the Church of the Crucifixion and the Lord’s Tomb.
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