Męcina, Limanowa County, Lesser Poland

Agnieszka Pawlus — Wed Dec 03, 2014 3:38 am

Author: Agnieszka Pawlus

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2014 3:38 am

This summer we've had as guests two sisters: Kim and Susanne Dudzik, who visited their ancestral village Męcina in southern Poland.

This village, nicely located in Beskidy Mountains, turned out to be incredibly hospitable! We already published Susanne's story about their visit in Męcina on our blog: http://blog.polishorigins.com/category/what-we-discovered-about-the-dudziks-in-poland/, however now the story has its continuation!

As we know Susanne and Kim are still in touch with their newly found relatives from Męcina. The articles about their tour were published in local parish newsletter “Skibowy Kamień” (Furrow Stone).

Here you can read the two articles, one is written by local historian from Męcina, Ms. Ludwika Dudzik, who helped Susanne to find her grandparent’s houses, and the other is by Susanne’s cousin Elżbieta.

Skibowy Kamień – Furrow Stone 2014
http://blog.polishorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Skibowy-Kamie%C5%84-Furrow-Stone-2014-our-article.pdf

Both articles are in Polish however they describe how moving was this visit also for people from Męcina. Ms. Ludwika wrote the beautiful story about bells from the church in Męcina. The old bells were taken from the church during the First World War, in 1916. When Poland regained its independence, in 1924 the emigrants from Męcina in Chicago founded two new bells for their homeland’s parish. The bigger one had the inscription: “From Męcina’s people in America to commemorate the resurrection of Poland” and the other “In honor of the fallen during the war”. Susanne’s grandfather was among those who founded the bells. Unfortunately, this beautiful gift was robbed during the World War 2 by Germans.

We have also received the detailed history article about the old, wooden church from Męcina from the local priest. The text is also in Polish, however it contains some photographs of the church and it might be interesting for all who have their roots in this hospitable village.

Kościół pw. św. Antoniego Opata w Męcinie
http://blog.polishorigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Ko%C5%9Bci%C3%B3%C5%82-pw.-%C5%9Bw.-Antoniego-Opata-w-M%C4%99cinie.pdf

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