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The article represents an investigation of Fr. Anatolij Kralycjkyj OSBM (1835 – 1894) heritage as a historian of the monkhood and the Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat. Volodymyr Moroz analyses attempts of this abbot at the Mukachevo Basilian monastery for detecting, exploration, and publishing documents of the XVIII – XIX centuries. The author argues, Fr. Kralycjkyj tended to publish old documental sources with significant consideration to preserving authenticity, while verifying information from different texts. Still, the abbot not merely was the publisher, because he developed and had been realizing for 1860 – 1890th his unique program of studying Basilian monastic history in Zakarpattia. Volodymyr Moroz deals with Fr. Kralycjkyj's papers on the history of monasteries in Bixad, Boroniava, Bukova Hirka, Hrushevo, Imstychevo, Krasnyi Brid, Malyi Bereznyi, Maria-Povch, Mukachevo, and a set of abolished monasteries in the Maramorosh country. He marks that the monk gradually moved in the mid 1860th from publication old documents about monastic history with commentaries to writing such auctorial essays, which finally constituted the kernel of his intellectual heritage. The article poses a set of Fr. Kralycjkyj biographical essays about outstanding Basilian monks in Zakarpattia form the next significant group in his legacy. The researcher clarifies the Basilian abbot planned to describe first and foremost biographies of Basilian "protohegumens", who ruled local monastic Province during XVIII – XIX centuries, but also of some Basilian ascetics and theologians. Moreover, Fr. Kralycjkyj, through his texts, showed his great interest in the spiritual experiences of ancient monks and published papers not only about Near East monastic Fathers but also about st. Cyril and Methodius, st. Anthony of Kyiv, st Nestor the Chronicler. In his intellectual inheritance, the Mukachevo abbot grew and consciously acted as a representative of Ukrainian religious and intellectual history in the second part of the XIX century. |
