Capuchin Monastery in Olesko, Former Capuchin convent in Olesko, Ukraine

The Capuchin Monastery in Olesko is a late Baroque complex built from 1737 by Martyn Dobrawski, with a church consecrated in 1739 to St Anthony of Padua. Its austere facade has a triangular pediment and flat pilasters; a rectangular two-storey brick cell wing with cross-vaulted ground floor adjoins the church to the south. A stone wall up to three metres high encloses a courtyard with five chapels, statues of saints and two ponds.

Founded in the second third of the 18th century by Seweryn Józef Rzewuski, the monastery was built under the direction of Andrzej of Szydłowiec (Marcin Dobrawski); the church was consecrated in 1739. In 1765 the Capuchins were ordered to leave, and in 1785 the complex became a military hospital. Emperor Joseph II returned it to the order in 1788, with 12,000 złoty rhine for restoration. A fire in 1806 collapsed vaulting and destroyed one of two chapels.

The monastery was named the Convent of St Joseph and St Antonina after its founders, Severin Józef Rzewuski and Antonina née Potocka, and a theological school for young people operated there. The church, consecrated in 1739, was dedicated to St Anthony of Padua; the Capuchins also ran a hospice in the convent buildings.

The complex is entered through a gate in a stone wall up to three metres high, without corner towers; the church door faces west, and the two-storey cell wing with its inner courtyard lies to the south. The former monastery now serves as an art museum, so parts of the buildings are open to visitors. The terrain includes courtyards and garden ground.

The monastery's library vanished without trace after the Capuchins were ordered out in 1765; it held two collections, one theological and one pharmaceutical on medicinal plants. The church crypt also lost its dead, whose bodies were exhumed and moved to the Latin parish church's chapel of the Crucifixion.