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 THE ORIGINS OF CRACOW was ceded to the sisterhood of St. Clare; this was about the time when King Ladislaus Lokietek, by his additions to the Wawel buildings, opened the Gothic period in the architectural history of the castle. The solid structure and fortified situation

of St. Andrew's Church made it fit to serve as a fortress, defying the enemy and offering sure refuge in times of war. The Gothic parts of the building, which are likewise very interesting, belong to the fourteenth century.

Of the parish church in Romanesque style, given, in the thirteenth