Abstract
The Papal Eastern Seminary in Dubno provides education for young men wanting to devote themselves to the clerical state. The author refers to the sources rarely quoted so far, or completely unused, and on their basis outlines the genesis of the University and shows its patrons-almoners. The documents unknown until today comprise among others: a seminarist periodical “Charitas” (later Caritas ), and “Druh-Другъ-Amicus” issued in Dubno. Other sources previously unused are two further periodicals: “Miesięcznik Pasterski Łucki” (“Monthly Pastoral of Lutsk”, 1926-1939) and “Oriens”, a bimonthly devoted to the religious affairs of the East, published in the years 1933-1939. Perusal of seminarist, diocesal and thematically profiled periodicals, journals and documents from the Archives of New Records in Warsaw allows us not only to verify specific knowledge, but also to broaden our horizons by learning about new important facts, issues and reas.