Piotr Nater
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Still he had deemed certain concessions advisable, such as allowing priests to marry, administering the communion in both kinds, the celebration of public worship in the National Tongue.
They had to do with forms merely, not at all with the doctrines of the Church.
To obtain the Pope's sanction for them, Possevin went to Rome.
He was entrusted by John besides with messages to the most powerful sovereigns of Europe.
A few months later the Jesuit returned, clothed with the dignity of apostolic vicar for Scandinavia and the adjoining countries.
He was authorized, on behalf of Philip II, to make to John the most brilliant promises, if he would publicly acknowledge Catholicism as his religion and that of his realm.
On the other hand, Possevin was to report to the king that the Pope could not, under any circumstances, agree to the concessions he had proposed.
John, who looked upon these as necessary to gain Sweden, was not a little displeased by this.
Political difficulties were added to his troubles.
He had hoped, by the aid of the Pope, to make good the claims of his wife to certain domains in South Italy.
He had also, a matter of much more consequence, requested the Pope's intercession on behalf of Sweden at the conclusion of a peace between Russia and Poland, but now he learned that the Italian duchies were out of the question, and Possevin himself brought about, in fifteen eighty two, a peace between Russia and Poland, in which the latter renewed her claims even to the Swedish possessions in Estonia.
When the Jesuit returned to Stockholm, he was received in a friendly way at first, but the wind had shifted.
With the death of the Queen in fifteen eighty three, the Jesuits lost their last support, as well as their most influential protector, and were banished from the kingdom.
Yet John, like Henry VIII of England, wished to hold an intermediate ground, and sturdily retained his Catholicizing liturgy in the face of all opposition.
He quarrelled, moreover, with his brother, Charles of Sudermanland.
Once John had been the zealous defender of ducal rights.
Now that he was king, he sought to limit Charles' independence as much as possible.
Charles assumed the part of champion of Orthodox Lutheranism against John's counter reformation, and declared himself intensely opposed to the King's Red Book, as he called the new liturgy.
His duchy became the refuge of all loyal Protestants who fled from John's persecution.
The clergymen deposed by the king were sure to find good positions with the Duke.
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