Piotr Nater
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At the Synod of Brecht in Lithuania, in the year fifteen eighty eight, he gave the Unitarian Church of Poland its final shape.
It cannot be denied that the maintenance of doctrines that were then considered as godless and criminal all over the Western world offended many of the weaker minds among the Protestants and led to their rejoining the Catholic Church.
Meanwhile, Stephen Battery had obtained important successes in his foreign policy.
With the aid of German mercenaries, he drove the Russians out of Livonia and took from them the entire principality of Polotsk.
Hard pressed, the cunning Ivan IV, applied to the Jesuit Antonio Possevin, who was then in Poland, on behalf of the Pope, giving him to understand that if he would use his influence in Ivan's interest, he would open Russia to the order and favor the conversion of his people to Catholicism.
Possevin was prevailed upon by this promise, and under the influence of the Jesuits, peace was concluded in fifteen eighty two.
It was decidedly advantageous to Poland, which was secured in the possession of Livonia, though it had to surrender its conquests in Russia proper.
Possevin betook himself to Moscow with some other members of the order to reap there the fruits of his mediation, but his great expectations were speedily dispelled.
Ivan refused to allow the Jesuits to remain in Russia, but did agree that the German noblemen and burgers, whom he had taken prisoners in Livonia, should not be allowed to return.
Then there would be so many heretics the less in Livonia, and its conversion to Catholicism would be easier.
These prisoners founded the German Slobode, suburb of Moscow, which was afterward to have so great an influence on the destinies of Russia.
In his attempt to free the crown from the control of the great families and thus restore to it its former independence and power, Stephen was wholly unsuccessful.
Worn out by this fruitless effort, Stephen Bathory died on december twelfth, fifteen eighty six at the age of fifty four.
He left no direct heirs.
The question of the succession arose again.
In the last decade the Catholics had made such gains that only Catholic candidates were mentioned.
There were two Archduke Maximilian, brother of Rudolf II, who
And the crown prince of Sweden, Zigismund, whose mother was a Jagellon, and therefore a zealous friend of the Jesuits.
Zigismund himself was a loyal pupil of the fathers, and his election was favoured by the Pope, who expected through him, to recover Sweden and Poland to Catholicism.
Public opinion also in Poland was favourable to the descendants of the Jagellons, so Zigismund obtained a majority of the votes.
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