Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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His second marriage had been barren, as well as his first, and threatened the Jagellon dynasty with extinction.
He wished to obtain a divorce from Barbara Ragiviu so as to contract a third marriage.
To this end he needed the Pope.
Hence his sudden return to Catholicism.
How like in selfish lack of principle and conscience to his contemporary Maximilian II?
He and Commendone secured official recognition in Poland for the decrees of the Council of Trent.
At first this was simply on paper.
In reality, perfect religious liberty still prevailed.
Zigismund, however, reaped the fruits of his subserviency to the Nuncio.
The church granted him a divorce from Barbara, and he contracted a third marriage with Catherine, widow of the Duke of Mantua.
The Protestants were not dismayed by this change on the part of the king, but sought safety in closer union.
In fifteen fifty five the Moravian Brethren Orvaldensis in Greater Poland, who differed from the Calvinists only with regard to the consecration of priests, had united at Kosminek with the Reformed to the great joy of the Genevese reformer and his principal disciples in Europe.
Then these two sects, now acting in common, sought to effect a compromise with the Lutherans, who were numerous, especially in the German portions of West Prussia and in Greater Poland.
The Lutherans, with their bygoted literalness and complacency, resisted a long time, but finally yielded in fifteen seventy.
Then, on april fourteenth, the representatives of the three Protestant confessions, the foremost ecclesiastics and most influential nobles, came to an agreement at Sandomir, the so called consensus, which by allowing each one his special form of faith, and only aiming at embracing all Protestants in a spiritual communion, doubled the power and influence of the reformers.
Yeah.
Several bishops now openly expressed their adherence, a matter of very great importance, as the bishops had a seat in the Senate, the Diet of Poland, where already most secular members were either reformed or Greek Catholics.
This epoch is the climax of Polish Protestantism.
It had then two thousand churches, two.
Most of the nobility belonged to it.
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