Apoteoza godła heraldycznego biskupa Macieja Grzegorza Garnysza w łacińskich wierszach herbowych w rubrycelach diecezji chełmskiej

Directories play an important role in pastoral life of every diocese. In Poland, the first known prints of this type come from the sixteenth century. They include liturgical calendar with the local celebrations, pastoral directives, a list of institutions and clergy working in the diocese. Directories are issued by the authority of the bishop. In the past, publishing them provided the opportunity to print bishop’s family crest and an appropriate Latin poem on the first page. From the period of the rule of the Bishop of Chełm Maciej Grzegorz Garnysz († 1790) there remained 4 directories exposing the Garnysz family crest - Poraj. The  authors of the poems included in the above-mentioned prints are unknown. These poems are in the form of epigrams. In terms of the composition, they are short lyric poems with four- and six-line stanzas, written in elegiac couplet. In this article, they were reprinted and translated into Polish. Their analysis and translation are completely new phenomena, as in Poland there are no other works presenting translation or a study of the poems included in directories.