Piotr Nater
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Gustavus had never expressly severed his connection with the Catholic Church, and he had retained the episcopal organization and much of the old ceremonial.
Great confusion had arisen out of this ambiguous attitude.
Church estates had been plundered, the priesthood had been recruited in part from unworthy elements, and preaching and the care of souls had been greatly neglected.
Many might properly ask themselves whether the change of religion were really for the better.
John was urged also to oppose Lutheranism by his Polish wife Catherine, of the Yagelon family, who had been brought up a Catholic, and who, as you know,
that she had voluntarily shared her husband's captivity exercised considerable influence over him.
She corresponded regularly with the Polish cardinal Stanislaus Hosius, a learned, pious, and zealous prelate who had done much to win back the nobles of his country to Catholicism, and who desired to render a like service in Sweden.
He showed the Queen how, under the pretense of giving instruction in Lutheranism, they might gradually bring back clergy and people to the Orthodox fold.
He sent her the Jesuit, Stanislaus Varsevich, who, in fifteen seventy four, reached Stockholm in disguise, and afterward two more who had been trained in Louvain, one a Netherlander, and other a Norwegian, who stole into Sweden as evangelical preachers.
The year before, fifteen seventy five, Laurentius Petrigothus, a pliable man, had been appointed Archbishop of Uppsala, and had declared himself in favour of the restoration of convents, the worship of saints, and the resumption of the old ceremonial.
They proceeded step by step in this reactionary work, for it did not seem prudent, considering the temper of the people, to try to accomplish it at one stroke.
Under the guidance of his Jesuits, John and his ministers prepared a liturgy in Latin, side by side with Swedish, based as a whole on the missile of the Council of Trent.
Finally, when an embassy was sent to Rome, the Pope sent to Sweden, under the protecting title of Imperial Legate, the Mantuan Jesuit, Antonio Possevin, one of the most talented and learned members of the order.
It was about the time of Eric's murder.
Possevin seized upon this and impressed upon John's mind that only by a penitent profession of the faith of the only true church could he escape eternal damnation for that fratricide.
Therefore John secretly embraced Catholicism at Vachtena in fifteen seventy eight, and
After this the Counter Reformation went on at a more rapid rate, and
Favoured by the king, the Jesuits obtained many pupils, and Catholicism made startling progress among the clergy.
Those who resisted were deprived of their places, canon law was declared to be binding on the Swedish church.
John mourned over the fate of his father Gustavus, condemned to eternal woo because of his recreancy.
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