SYGAŃSKI Jan ks. - Nowy Sącz. Its history and historical memorabilia. Historical sketch in commemoration of the six hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city [1892].

Nowy Sacz 1892. published by the Municipality of the City of Nowy Sącz. 15.5x24 cm, pp. (4), 86, black and white illustrations on separate pages, contemporary cardboard replacement cover. Good condition (uncut pages, handwritten period notes on two pages).

In contents: The name of the Judaea region. The beginnings of Christianity and the first apostles of the Sącz land in the 10th century. The times of Blessed Kinga and the Tartar invasions. The foundation of Nowy Sącz (1292). Nowy Sacz in the era of its flowering and splendor (from Wladyslaw Lokietek to Sigismund I). Disasters and decline of the town (from Sigismund I to the first partition of Poland). The royal castle and the Town Hall. Churches and monasteries of the OO. Franciscans and Piarists. St. Margaret's Collegiate Church, today the parish church. Image of the Transfiguration of the Lord miraculously famous. Church of the Holy Spirit of the Norbertine Fathers, today the Jesuit Fathers. The abolition of the Norbertines. Jesuit Fathers. Image of Our Lady of Consolation miraculously famous.