[Vilnius] A 1925 photograph of the priests of the Vilnius Seminary.

Photograph of the priests of the Vilnius Seminary 1925.

Photograph measuring 18 x 24 cm. Print on gelatin-silver paper. Attached parchment wrapper with a description of some of the figures in the photograph ("Given by Mr. Malawko in 1972").

At the top, in the central part, the figure of Pope Pius XI is visible, on the right is Vilnius Bishop Jerzy Matulewicz (1871-1927), blessed of the Catholic Church, renewer and general of the Marian Order. In addition, the photograph shows, among others, Father Stanislaw Miłkowski (1881-1961) - a friend and confessor of Eliza Orzeszkowa, Father Rector Jan Uszyłło, Father Adam Sawicki, later Bishop of Bialystok, as well as other clergy who often died a tragic death (shot by the Germans).