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Felician Sisters’ Church of Saint Mary’s Immaculate Heart in Krakow

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ul. Smoleńsk 6, 31-107 Kraków Tourist region: Kraków i okolice

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On Smoleńsk Street, behind a high wall, the church and convent of the congregation of the Sisters of St Felix of Cantalice – the Felician Sisters – is hidden. The main purpose of the order is contemplation and apostolic activity with the privilege of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

The small, neo-Romanesque church was built in 1882–1884, designed by Feliks Księżarski, for the Felician Order displaced from the Russian partition after the fall of the January Uprising. The church was renovated in 1925. Near the end of the war, in 1945, the stained glass window above the main entrance was destroyed. A major refurbishment of the building was carried out in 1955.

The church is a pseudo-basilica with an emporium; its tower is decorated with a golden crown modelled on St Mary's Basilica. It features the works of the Felician Sisters, the Stations of the Cross from 1950 and the image of the Immaculate Heart of Mary above the altar from 1955. A new altar was erected in 1982.

In 1993, Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Maria Truszkowska, the founder of the Felician Order. In the main nave is an altar dedicated to Blessed Mary, which has her relics. The feast of the Blessed is celebrated on 10 October.

In Kraków, the Order of Felician Sisters is active all the time in the same place. In 1931, the sisters swapped part of their garden at the corner of Zwierzyniecka and Straszewskiego Streets for a farm in Tyniec. A Catholic House and the ‘Świt’ cinema were built on the land they ceded; today, it is the home of the Karol Szymanowski State Philharmonic Orchestra.