Cmentarz Sióstr Urszulanek
Facts and practical information
Ursuline Sisters Cemetery - necropolis located in Pniewy by the exit road from the city towards Łężeczki.
The cemetery is connected with the Pniew motherhouse of the Ursuline Sisters and the local shrine of Ursula Ledóchowska. Over 150 nuns are buried in the cemetery, in graves with uniform, wooden crosses. Among those buried here are sisters who remembered Ursula Ledóchowska. Each of the plaques bears the name Sister Maria.. then the name of the order and their own name.
Apart from the sisters, the cemetery also holds the burial place of Prof. Wladyslaw Czarnecki, an architect and the author of many Poznan buildings. Also resting here are: Msgr. Wawrzyniec A. Wnuk, apostolic protonotary, canon of the Primate's Chapter in Gniezno, Msgr.3.1869-8.5.1935, longtime chaplain to the Ursuline Sisters, Father Alfons Chmielowiec, longtime chaplain to the Ursuline Sisters and educator of youth.
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