Piotr Nater
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And with the new religious doctrines, the culture and intellectual life of Poland declined.
The fate of the Greek Church to which most of Lithuania, together with the dependent provinces of Little Russia and White Russia, belonged, was like that of the Protestant confessions.
The old Lithuanian princely families of Chartoriskis and Sangushkos, the Russian families of note, the Oginskys, the Vilhurskis, the Sapas, and even descendants of Rurik himself, like the princes Ostrogsky and Vishnovsky, forsook their inherited faith for the religion of the Polish court.
And thus they became renegades, not to their religion alone, but also to their race, for they assumed the Polish nationality and Polish speech, together with the faith of the Latin Church.
Soon, however, the Jesuits succeeded in inflicting a still more serious blow on the Greek Church of Lithuania by inducing the king to threaten that he would henceforth admit to the Senate only such great prelates as had made their submission to Rome.
At the Synod of Preshlidevsky, therefore, in fifteen ninety four, most of the Lithuanian bishops expressed their assent to the union formulated by the Council of Florence in fourteen thirty eight.
They recognized, among other dogmas, purgatory and the supremacy of the Pope, but they retained the Slavic tongue for public service as well as the rights and chirarchy of the Greek Church.
They were received into the communion of Western Christendom under the name of Greek United Church.
This was one of the most signal victories of Rome in the sixteenth century.
After so many irrevocable losses it had at last one new conquest to show.
Nowhere else did the Counter Reformation and the Jesuits work so quickly and so comprehensively as in Poland Lithuania in the reign of Sigismund III.
The policy of religious restoration adopted by Zigismund had the most pernicious consequences for the power and greatness of Poland.
It can be said that this reign spread the seed of all the destructive agencies that were, with such startling rapidity, to cause the complete dissolution and ruin of the kingdom.
The venality which had been encouraged in the nobles was soon to serve the purposes of foreign and even of hostile powers as readily as it had served those of Rome.
The nobleman, who had begun to serve the church for pay, was easily persuaded to become the paid servant of Austria or Russia.
The suppression of Protestantism alienated the population of East Prussia and paved the way for the loss of that important Baltic province.
The Poles proceeded by violent measures to introduce Catholicism into Livonia, installing Catholic priests and bishops, handling over the schools to the Jesuits, and doing their best to do away with the German element.
Is it a wonder that the Livonians turned longingly to Sweden for help?
Finally, the union of the larger part of the Lithuanian Church with Rome excited the wrath of the Cossacks, who were intensely attached to the Greek Church.
These plundering hordes of the Middle and Lower Dniper had been organized by King Stephen Battery as a barrier against the Turks and the Muscovites, and their country had for this reason, received the name of Ukraine, borderland, and
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