Gothic baptismal basin from the parish church in Strachocina.


baptismal basin of St. Andrew Bobola

Undoubtedly it originates from the first church in Strachocina built in XIV c.
Almost for sure it was used during baptizing little Andrew Bobola.
For years (it seems that since 1900 when in the place of the old wooden church the new one was build) it laid aside outdoors. Since II W.W. at a little cemetery of Soviet soldiers killed during it. Almost entirely buried in soil it was used as a kind of a big flower-pot..
It was discovered only at the beginning of 1990s and introduced to the church again, to the St. Andreas altar.

This brings to mind biblical: A stone rejected by builders set to be the cornerstone.


source of the picture:
book of Father Mirosław Paciuszkiewicz: "Znów o sobie przypomniał. Św. Andrzej w Strachocinie" ("Again He recalled Himself. St Andrew in Strachocina"


Updated: March 1 1999