Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and the Franciscan Monastery in Udelo

Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and the Franciscan Monastery in Udelo - a monument of architecture, which combines the features of shape in his baroque and classicism. Built in 1790 year of brick on the site of a wooden church of the monastery of Franciscans, who invited the mayor here Mstislavsky Joseph Korsak in 1642 year.

Ensemble Franciscan monastery for an inheritance included a church, residential housing, farm buildings, a fence with a Brahma-belfry. Three-nave church with a semicircular apse and sacristy on each side. The interior has a cylindrical vaults, located above the entrance gallery, where previously housed the organ of 12 votes. From a two-story U-shaped monastery housing (convent authorities closed in 1851 year) survived only one wing. The other building was dismantled in 1882 year. In the second half of the XIX century the church was erected near the bunk-Gate belfry in the forms of classicism.

July 1, 2000 year the church was returned to the Franciscans. Now it is a convent of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, who in his work continues the tradition of the idea and the founder of the Knighthood of the Immaculate Virgin Mary Maximilian Kolbe. He was martyred at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz after the war was canonized, he placed a monument on the territory of the monastery.

The Catholic Church in the person of Pope Pius IX adopted the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary in 1854 year. Four years after the adoption of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, in 1858 year, in Lourdes, in the grotto at the source, the phenomenon of the Mother of God happened to girl Bernadette. Virgin has announced a ”virgin birth”. This episode tells the stories of a local Batleyka .

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