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This year, the 16th Pierogi Festival took place in Cracow’s Mały Rynek (Lesser Square). It always happens around August 17, that is, the day when the Catholic Church remembers Saint Hyacinth, also known as Jacek Odrowąż. Authors of the festival’s best pierogi are awarded a statuette of the holy man, who is often called the patron saint of pierogi. Other pierogi celebrations are held in other parts of the country – invariably on or near Saint Hyacinth’s Day.

So what does the Dominican friar from Cracow have to do with the ~~flavorful~~ farinaceous dish? What do the Internet and popular publications have to say on this topic and what can we find in historical sources? Let’s find out!

So what does the Dominican friar from Cracow have to do with the flavourful farinaceous dish? What do the Internet and popular publications have to say on this topic and what can we find in historical sources? Let’s find out!

Two legends, linking Saint Hyacinth with pierogi, are briefly cited on the official website of Ms. Magdalena Gessler, a Polish celebrity cook.

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== Life and Legend ==

[[File:św Jacek.JPG|thumb|200px|A statuette of Saint Hyacinth at Pierogi Festival in Cracow]]

How much truth is there to it? Let’s start with a short introduction to Saint Hyacinth himself (if you’re easily bored with biographical details, please skip this paragraph). Jacek Odrowąż ~~(pronounced:~~ {{~~pron~~|~~yah|tsek}} {{pron|aw|dRaw|vawnsh~~}}), to use his Polish name, was born around 1183 in Kamień, Silesia, in the affluent Moravian-Silesian Odrowąż family. His uncle, Iwo Odrowąż, was a bishop of Cracow and a chancellor at the court of Leszek the White, Duke of Cracow, so it comes as no surprise that Jacek was educated at the cathedral school of Cracow. Once ordained priest, Jacek continued his studies at the University of Bologna. During his visit to Rome, he met Domingo de Guzmán, or Saint Dominic, the founder of the Dominican Order. By the time he returned to Cracow, he had become a Dominican friar himself. On his way back he founded a new Dominican monastery everywhere he stopped – in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and finally in Cracow, at the Holy Trinity Church. He would later work as a missionary in Prussia and – what matters to us – in the homeland of pierogi (or the ''ruskie'' ones at least), that is, in Rus, in the years 1228–1233.

How much truth is there to it? Let’s start with a short introduction to Saint Hyacinth himself (if you’re easily bored with biographical details, please skip this paragraph). Jacek Odrowąż{{czyt|Jacek Odrowąż}}, to use his Polish name, was born around 1183 in Kamień, Silesia, in the affluent Moravian-Silesian Odrowąż family. His uncle, Iwo Odrowąż, was a bishop of Cracow and a chancellor at the court of Leszek the White, Duke of Cracow, so it comes as no surprise that Jacek was educated at the cathedral school of Cracow. Once ordained priest, Jacek continued his studies at the University of Bologna. During his visit to Rome, he met Domingo de Guzmán, or Saint Dominic, the founder of the Dominican Order. By the time he returned to Cracow, he had become a Dominican friar himself. On his way back he founded a new Dominican monastery everywhere he stopped – in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and finally in Cracow, at the Holy Trinity Church. He would later work as a missionary in Prussia and – what matters to us – in the homeland of pierogi (or the ''ruskie'' ones at least), that is, in Rus, in the years 1228–1233.

Our chief source of knowledge about Jacek is the hagiography penned by Lector Stanislaus at the Holy Trinity Monastery, entitled ''De vita miraculis sancti Jacchonis'' (''The Miraculous Life of Saint Hyacinth''). Written for the purpose of presenting the case for his canonization, the work is focused more on the miracles attributed to Hyacinth than on the details of his earthly life. Interestingly, neither the biographical, nor the miraculous part, contains any mention of pierogi.

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| miejsce = Warszawa

| rok = 1899

}}, paragraph 2027. English translation ~~of the quoted fragment based on~~: {{Cyt

}}, paragraph 2027. Paraphrase of an English translation from: {{Cyt

| nazwisko = Cervantes Saavedra

| imię = Miguel de

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| tom = II

| strony = 12

}}. The actual English translation has “Alas!” ~~instead of~~ “O Saint Hyacinth of Pierogi!”

}}. The actual English translation has “Alas!” rather than “O Saint Hyacinth of Pierogi!”

| oryg = – O Święty Jacku z pierogami! – wrzaśnie siostrzenica – a bodajem zmarniała, jeżeli wujaszkowi znów się nie zachciewa pójść na błędnego rycerza.

| źródło-oryg = ''ibid.'', tłum. Zakrzewski

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 This year, the 16th Pierogi Festival took place in Cracow’s Mały Rynek (Lesser Square). It always happens around August 17, that is, the day when the Catholic Church remembers Saint Hyacinth, also known as Jacek Odrowąż. Authors of the festival’s best pierogi are awarded a&nbsp;statuette of the holy man, who is often called the patron saint of pierogi. Other pierogi celebrations are held in other parts of the country – invariably on or near Saint Hyacinth’s Day.
-So what does the Dominican friar from Cracow have to do with the flavorful farinaceous dish? What do the Internet and popular publications have to say on this topic and what can we find in historical sources? Let’s find out!
+So what does the Dominican friar from Cracow have to do with the flavourful farinaceous dish? What do the Internet and popular publications have to say on this topic and what can we find in historical sources? Let’s find out!
 Two legends, linking Saint Hyacinth with pierogi, are briefly cited on the official website of Ms. Magdalena Gessler, a&nbsp;Polish celebrity cook.
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 == Life and Legend ==
 [[File:św Jacek.JPG|thumb|200px|A statuette of Saint Hyacinth at Pierogi Festival in Cracow]]
-How much truth is there to it? Let’s start with a&nbsp;short introduction to Saint Hyacinth himself (if you’re easily bored with biographical details, please skip this paragraph). Jacek Odrowąż (pronounced: {{pron|yah|tsek}} {{pron|aw|dRaw|vawnsh}}), to use his Polish name, was born around 1183 in Kamień, Silesia, in the affluent Moravian-Silesian Odrowąż family. His uncle, Iwo Odrowąż, was a&nbsp;bishop of Cracow and a&nbsp;chancellor at the court of Leszek the White, Duke of Cracow, so it comes as no surprise that Jacek was educated at the cathedral school of Cracow. Once ordained priest, Jacek continued his studies at the University of Bologna. During his visit to Rome, he met Domingo de Guzmán, or Saint Dominic, the founder of the Dominican Order. By the time he returned to Cracow, he had become a&nbsp;Dominican friar himself. On his way back he founded a&nbsp;new Dominican monastery everywhere he stopped – in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and finally in Cracow, at the Holy Trinity Church. He would later work as a&nbsp;missionary in Prussia and – what matters to us – in the homeland of pierogi (or the ''ruskie'' ones at least), that is, in Rus, in the years 1228–1233.
+How much truth is there to it? Let’s start with a&nbsp;short introduction to Saint Hyacinth himself (if you’re easily bored with biographical details, please skip this paragraph). Jacek Odrowąż{{czyt|Jacek Odrowąż}}, to use his Polish name, was born around 1183 in Kamień, Silesia, in the affluent Moravian-Silesian Odrowąż family. His uncle, Iwo Odrowąż, was a&nbsp;bishop of Cracow and a&nbsp;chancellor at the court of Leszek the White, Duke of Cracow, so it comes as no surprise that Jacek was educated at the cathedral school of Cracow. Once ordained priest, Jacek continued his studies at the University of Bologna. During his visit to Rome, he met Domingo de Guzmán, or Saint Dominic, the founder of the Dominican Order. By the time he returned to Cracow, he had become a&nbsp;Dominican friar himself. On his way back he founded a&nbsp;new Dominican monastery everywhere he stopped – in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and finally in Cracow, at the Holy Trinity Church. He would later work as a&nbsp;missionary in Prussia and – what matters to us – in the homeland of pierogi (or the ''ruskie'' ones at least), that is, in Rus, in the years 1228–1233.
 Our chief source of knowledge about Jacek is the hagiography penned by Lector Stanislaus at the Holy Trinity Monastery, entitled ''De vita miraculis sancti Jacchonis'' (''The Miraculous Life of Saint Hyacinth''). Written for the purpose of presenting the case for his canonization, the work is focused more on the miracles attributed to Hyacinth than on the details of his earthly life. Interestingly, neither the biographical, nor the miraculous part, contains any mention of pierogi.
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   | miejsce  = Warszawa
   | rok      = 1899
-  }}, paragraph 2027. English translation of the quoted fragment based on: {{Cyt
+  }}, paragraph 2027. Paraphrase of an English translation from: {{Cyt
   | nazwisko = Cervantes Saavedra
   | imię     = Miguel de
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   | tom      = II
   | strony   = 12
-  }}. The actual English translation has “Alas!” instead of “O Saint Hyacinth of Pierogi!”
+  }}. The actual English translation has “Alas!” rather than “O Saint Hyacinth of Pierogi!”
 | oryg = – O&nbsp;Święty Jacku z&nbsp;pierogami! – wrzaśnie siostrzenica – a&nbsp;bodajem zmarniała, jeżeli wujaszkowi znów się nie zachciewa pójść na błędnego rycerza.
 | źródło-oryg = ''ibid.'', tłum. Zakrzewski