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See also:SKARGA, PIOTR (1532-1612) , See also:Polish writer and reformer, was See also:born at Grojec near See also:Warsaw in 1532. He was a member of the See also:noble Pawenski See also:family, but his See also:pseudonym of Skarga (from " skarga" a " complaint" or " See also:accusation") speedily superseded his real name. Educated at Grojec and See also:Cracow, he began See also:life as a See also:tutor to the family of See also:Andrew Tenczynski, castellan of Cracow, and, some years later, after a visit to See also:Vienna, took orders, and from 1563 was attached to the See also:cathedral See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Lemberg. His See also:oratory was so successful that he determined to become a missionary-preacher among the See also:people, in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order the better to combat the social and See also:political evils of the See also:day. By way of preparation he studied See also:theology in See also:Italy from 1568 to 1570, and finally entered the Society of Jesus. On his return he preached successively at See also:Pultusk, Jaroslaw and See also:Plock under the powerful See also:protection of See also:Queen See also:Anne Jagielonika. During a subsequent See also:mission to Lithuania he converted numerous noble families, including the Radziwills, and held for some years the rectorship of the Jesuit See also:Academy at Wilna, where he composed his Lives of the See also:Saints. In 1584 he was transferred to the new Jesuit See also:College at Cracow. He was protected by the valiant See also:Stephen See also:Bathory, and the first See also:act of the pious See also:Sigismund III., on ascending the Polish See also:throne, was to make Skarga his See also:court preacher, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he held for twenty-four years (1588-1611). With perfect fearlessness and piercing eloquence, he rebuked the sioth, the avarice, and the lawlessness of the diets which were doing their best to make See also:government in See also:Poland impossible. Sometimes, as for instance during the insurrection of Zebrzydowski, Skarga intervened personally in politics, and on the See also:side of order and decency, for his See also:loyalty to the See also:crown was as unquestionable as his devotion to the Church. Wearied out at last, he begged to be relieved of his office of preacher, quitted the court, and resided for the last few months of his life at Cracow, where he died on the 27th of See also:September 1612.
The most important of his See also:works are: Lives of the Saints (Wilna, 1579, 27th edition, 1884) ; Sermons on Sundays and Saints' Days (1st ed., Cracow, 1595, Latin ed., Cracow, 1691); Sermons preached before the See also:Diet (last and best edition, Cracow, 1904) and numerous other volumes of sermons, some of which have already run through See also:thirty See also:editions. Of less importance are his very numerous polemical works, though his famous See also:book On the Unity of the Church of See also:God (1st edition, Wilna, 1577) directed against the dissenters, especially the See also:Greek Orthodox schismatics, will always have an See also:historical See also:interest.
See Izydor Dzieduszycki, See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Skarga and his See also:Age. (Pol.) (Cracow, 1850-1851). (R. N.
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