Magdalena Ludera
Prace Historyczne, Numer 144 (1), 2017, s. 59 - 82
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.17.004.5864Łukasz Węgleński with spouse – founder of the former orthodox church in Klesztów. About relations in the religious borderlands of the Commonwealth of Poland in the XVIIIth century
As a starting point for my considerations, I used an unknown image of the foundational couple, painted al fresco in 1772 by Gabriel Sławiński in the porch of the former Orthodox church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Klesztów near Chełm. In light of the sources, the founder of the church and its furnishings was the then pantler and standard-bearer of Chełm, Łukasz Węgleński, who was portrayed together with the hitherto mysterious spouse, presumably coming from the Rulikowski family. Reconstructing Łukasz’s life, I studied the biographies of his father, Franciszek, and cousin, Wojciech Józef Longin. I analysed their two portraits preserved in Tarnów and Chełm, heretofore identified mistakenly or dated too generally. When following the connections between the three members of the Węgleński family, I accentuated the character of their religiousness as symptomatic of the religious borderland of the Commonwealth of Poland in the 18th century on the one hand, and on the other hand, their relations with Wacław Rzewuski, including the time of the coronation of the Chełm icon of Mother of God (1765).