Piotr Nater
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 8 Aug
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The minority, however, would not yield, and a civil war ensued.
It was not until Maximilian had suffered a defeat at Pichen in fifteen eighty eight, and had been taken prisoner by Zamoyski that Zigismund was universally acknowledged as king.
This prince surrendered himself entirely to the control of the Jesuits.
Though as a ruler he had little to do with the kingdom as a whole, his personal influence was very great.
He not only made appointments to all great offices and dignities, but he had also to assign the domains, the Starostis, to nobles, who kept them for life, and paid to the crown a very slight rent for them.
In all he had told him
twenty thousand positions to bestow.
The king entrusted all these bribes and baits to the Jesuits.
Father Scarga distributed dignities, revenues, and starosties at his own good pleasure, and it is to such means that Pope Clement VIII himself attributed the progress of Catholicism in Poland.
And he was right, in order not to lose the advantages held out by the king, and a seat in the Senate, Polish and Lithuanian noblemen went back in crowds to the Roman Catholic Church, and
Their example was contagious, and secession from Protestantism became almost universal.
Every great nobleman drew after him the numerous lesser nobles who were dependent upon him.
On his estates Protestant churches were restored to Catholic worship, Protestant pastors were expelled, and the peasantry and small burgers were obliged to submit to the change.
The Radivu family was one of the first to adopt this course, therefore one of its members was rewarded with a cardinal's hat.
Everywhere Jesuit colleges were erected, and the children of the nobles imbibed in them the most bitter hatred for all heretics.
In the cities the decisions of partial judges robbed the Protestants of their parish churches and gave them to the Catholics.
Jesuit missionaries surrounded by great pomp and protected by the cossacks of the great nobles, travelled all over the land, winning souls by persuasion or by terror.
By such means Protestantism was almost entirely eradicated in Poland proper and in Lithuania, not by direct persecution, be it remembered, but by the skill of the Jesuits, and the base greed of the nobles, with whom material interests counted more than moral and spiritual.
A short time since, wrote a papal nuncio in fifteen ninety eight, it did seem as if heresy would entirely supplant Catholicism.
Now Catholicism is driving heresy to its grave.
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