65 Apostolate or Contemplation: 1677-1723 that the monastery surrounded the church on three sides and leaned on it.29 Right next to the church wall was a hallway measuring 1 meter and a half in width, which led to individual cells measuring 3 meters by 3 meters. The monastery building was probably very low because the church windows looked over the monastery roof, leaning against the wall.” On the right hand, looking from the altar (where the sarcophagus is today), was the altar of St. Raphael, with the altar of St. Michael the Archangel on the left. These were the saints especially venerated by Fr. Stanislaus, who brought their paintings from Rome to be placed in this church. A large marble table in the middle of the shrine stood holding the “Crucifix, which represents the Lord’s Passion.”30 At about 15 meters from the north side of the church, that is, behind the sacristy, there was a second monastery. Nothing is known about when it was built, its size, or when it collapsed. The question also arises about which of the two monasteries was first: the one surrounding the church or the one located behind the sacristy. We know that Bishop Wierzbowski gave the Marian Fathers a church with a monastery. Oskar Flatt, who visited the Cenacle in 1854, described it as follows: “It is located outside the town on the southwest side, near the settlement called Wyględówka; it presents today only a sad picture of desolation. It is a rectangular brick church roofed with shingles; if not for the cross above it, it could easily be taken for some farm building. Up until the present year, there were some monastery buildings on its southern wall, which — as one can notice — were built originally with little effort. They were torn down upon the order of a Marian presently in residence at this church, and their remains were used to build lodgings at the farm for his improved comfort.”31 Fr. Makulski, who supervised the general renovation of the Cenacle in 1962, reported: “About 15 meters away from the north side of the church, just above the now-filled-in pond, we discovered the foundations of some other building. It was built more solidly than the other one [the one around the church] with the use of large, partially hewn 29 Eugeniusz Makulski, Dziedzictwo. Odbudowa kościoła Wieczerzy Pańskiej w Górze Kalwarii, Wrocław 2001, pp. 58-59. 30 Oskar Flatt, Góra Kalwarya czyli Nowe Jeruzalem, Warszawa 1854, p. 68. 31 Ibid.
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