Piotr Nater
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By this time the Great Reformation movement had reached Poland.
It had won adherence among the German burgers of West Prussia immediately after Luther's first open declarations.
In Danzig, as early as fifteen twenty four, there had been an uprising of the Lutherans who had driven out the old city council and forcibly suppressed the Catholic worship.
For this conduct they had been cruelly punished by the
Zigismund I.
But this prince had not otherwise interfered with the evangelicals whose number was steadily increasing.
He was rather indifferent in matters of religion, satisfying himself with the mere show of zealous orthodoxy.
I am, he used to say, king of the sheep, as well as of the goats.
The Husaite ideas that had taken firm hold of many Polish minds, the abuses of which the Catholic clergy were guilty, in Poland no less than elsewhere, the universal intellectual movement, which since the latter half of the fifteenth century had from Italy spread all over Europe and
The desire of a numerous and greedy nobility to possess themselves of the estates of the church and the dream of a national Polish church had all contributed to forward the Reformation movement.
Sigismund I gave his consent to the establishment of a Protestant university in Königsberg in fifteen forty four and
and it soon flooded Poland with Bibles and polemical writings in the national tongue.
Luther's works were openly sold in the University of Krakow and everywhere greedily read.
The confessor of Queen Bona Sforza, Lismanini, took pains to circulate all anti papal books published in Europe.
Other foreign clergymen became apostles of the new faith and of even bolder doctrines which found ready acceptance among the impressionable Slavs.
Another lander, Pastoris, by name, taught quite independently of Lelio and Faustosini, Socinus, the rejection of the Trinity, and a community of unitarians was secretly formed in Krakow.
Numerous students went to the German universities and returned confirmed Lutherans.
Even Polish priests and theological professors in the University of Krakow preached, under the protection of the nobles, against Catholic dogmas.
The Moravian brethren, driven out of their country, won over to their doctrine a considerable portion of Greater Poland, including the most distinguished noble families.
Such was the situation of affairs at the death of Zigismund I.
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