Początki polonijnej parafii narodowościowej Matki Boskiej Zwycięskiej w Chatham, Ontario, i problem zachowania jej statusu
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Abstract
The Poles who started settling in the vicinity of Chatham, Ontario, in the 1930s, were - due to their low number - deprived of pastoral care. Rev. Jan Andrzejewski, the former parish priest from Windsor, helped them. Having retired, he lived in the Chatham hospital of St Joseph's. After 1945 the Polish community in Chatham started to grow, and the Czech Jesuit, Fr. Franciszek Dostal, the parish priest of St. Anthony's, took care about them along with Rev. Jan Achtabowski from Leamington, later from Thamesville. Rev. Jan Achtabowski had to come to Chatham more and more often. In 1956 there was a fire in St. Anthony's church. Due to these two facts a plan was conceived to establish here a Polish ethnic parish. It was made possible not only due to the integration of the Polish community and somewhat regular pastoral care, but, above all, as a result of Rev. Jan Achtabowski's uncompromising attitude. It was he who during talks with the then bishop of the diocese of London, John C. Cody, pointed to Rev. Wawrzyniec Wnuk as a potential parish priest of the new parish. Owing to his endeavours, the bishop created a Polish parish in Chatham on 2 April, 1957, with the invocation of Our Lady of the Victories, and made Rev. W. Wnuk its parish priest. The latter bought a lot (10 acres) from the collections of the faithful and with the aid from various milieus in Canada and the USA. In October 1957 he started to build his own church, and as early as 27 April, 1958, the church was consecrated by the local bishop. For almost twenty years the developing parish functioned in accord with the American custom, i.e. as an ethnic unit. In 1974 Rev. Mieczyslaw Kaminski, the fourth consecutive parish priest, launched an initiative to rename the parish into an ethnic-territorial one, so that it could attract the English speaking parishioners, all the more that the English language was becoming more and more common in the church. The then bishop had the same expectations, nevertheless after many discussions, sittings and petitions from the majority of parishioners the hitherto status of the parish had been maintained, the fact which was confirmed by Bishop E. Carter on 13 December, 1977. What Polonia meant was, above all, to save its own identity, culture, language and tradition, and this does not exclude in the least (as it is now) the English speaking faithful from an active participation in the life of the community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".