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Piotr Skarga
1536 - 1612 · Jesuit preacher, Writer · b. in Grójec
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Polish writer (1536-1612)
Piotr Skarga was a Polish Jesuit, preacher, hagiographer, polemicist, and leading figure of the Counter-Reformation in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to his oratorical gifts, he has been called "the Polish Bossuet".
Key achievements
- 01Royal preacher of Sigismund III
- 02Author of the Sejm Sermons
- 03First rector of the Vilnius Academy
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