During the partitions of Poland, this region of the country belonged to Austria and was called Galicia.

In earlier times the region was called Ziemia Sanocka (The Land of Sanok).

Local tradition has it that there lived three kinds of people in the village: serfs (persons in a condition of feudal servitude, required to render services to a lord and attached to the lord's land), tenants of the estate, and szlachta zaściankowa (village noblemen).

Today they show in the local church an old baptismal basin made of stone and assert that it was used to baptize the future saint.

Near it one can find a monument of Saint Andrew, 600-year-old oak, a St. Maximilian cloister for nuns, and a newly built pilgrim's hostel.