Pobyt metropolity mołdawskiego Dozyteusza w Żółkwi w latach 1686-1693, spadek po nim oraz sprawa kultu św. Jana Nowego (Suczawskiego) do końca XVIII wieku

The article presents the outcome of the expedition of John III Sobieski to Moldavia in 1686. In addition to political and military aspects, the protection of metropolitan Dositheos and the accompanying monks is one of the most important effects of the retreat of the Polish-Lithuanian army from Iasi. The clergyman, leaving the Principality of Moldavia (Hospodarstwo), took with him, besides the valuable tokens of his authority, liturgical apparatus and metropolitan archives, also the relics of St. John the New lodged in a silver sarcophagus, constituting the national sanctity of Moldavians. The rest of the article discusses the details of the metropolitan’s stay in Stryi and Zhovkva until his death in 1693, the development of the cult of St. John the New in the context of the construction of royal splendour, the efforts on Moldavian side to get back the remains of the saint and the revindication of the relics in 1783.