Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
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The former, a nephew of the Primate of Poland, had formed intimate relations with Erasmus and the Reformers during his journeys in Europe.
And when once won over to the new doctrines, had renounced the most brilliant prospects of ecclesiastical preferment to devote himself to evangelical work in England and Germany.
He loved, above all, the moderate views and the noble ritual of Anglicanism, and sought to found in his native land and national church after its pattern.
Nicholas Ragiviu, cousin of the Queen, was Chancellor of Lithuania, Palatin of Vilna, and a man of enormous wealth.
His conversion exercised a most powerful influence on the Lithuanian nobility, so that they, almost without exception, left the Church of Rome.
His early death, in fifteen sixty five, alone saved the old faith from total extinction in that province.
A measure intended by Pope Paul IV to bring Poland back to Romanism had exactly the contrary effect.
He sent thither as nuncio one of the most virulent church zeilots, Lippomani, who was, above all, to prevent the convening of the impartial national council which the Polish nation so much desired.
This blow in the face of public opinion embittered the Polish nobility to reach
to such a degree that Denuncio was received at the diet with insulting remarks.
Some bloody persecutions, initiated by Lippomani with the aid of some fanatical grandees, increased the wrath against him to such a pitch that his life was in danger, and he had to leave the kingdom in fifteen fifty six.
It is evident that if Zigismund II had placed himself at the head of the Reform movement, he could easily have established a Polish national church after the pattern of that of England, and thus given his people and his state increased firmness and stability.
But he did not possess the required strength of character to take so important a step.
With his philosophic skepticism he let things have their course, and allied himself to the party which seemed for the moment to offer him the greatest advantages.
Then Paul's successor, Pius IV, fulfilled at last the wish of all devout Catholics by reassembling the Council of Trent.
In fifteen sixty three, the year of the final closing of the Council of Trent, the Polish diet renewed its request for an impartial Polish national synod, and the primate, the Archbishop of Gnazen Uhainski, a favourer of the Reformation, was inclined to concede that demand.
But then came the shrewd commandone as papal nuncio, and in private conversations depicted to the king the dangers that
things that would arise from the meeting of a synod at which the most various and opposite sects would have a hearing, it could lead to nothing short of general confusion.
He called his attention to the steadiness and uniformity that prevailed in the Catholic Church, to the principle of authority that controlled it.
Zigismund had another reason still to court favour with Rome.
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