The article focuses on the circle of associates and supporters of Andrzej Młodziejowski, the Bishop of Poznań and the Great Chancellor of the Crown, in the final period of his activity. The article deals with last years ...

The article presents the rich foundation activity of Jakub Bieda Chrostkowic (d. 1630), a mansionary (lower rank chaplain), then a parish priest and dean of Małogoszcz. In the years 1591–1624, this clergyman built as many ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the careers of three personages from different strata of the nobility in Lesser Poland, who began their careers with activities for the Republic of Poland, and then devoted themselves ...

The Polish kings of the Vasa dynasty played a key role in the establishment and development of the 17th-century mission of the Discalced Carmelites and Jesuits in Persia. The first Polish historian who drew attention to ...

John Calvin’s concepts pertaining to the relationship between the Church and the State are closely linked to his ecclesiology. Prior to his arrival in Geneva in 1536 and commencing reformatory activities there, Calvin ...

Prince Jerzy Zbaraski (1574–1631) was one of the most eminent Polish politicians in the first half of the 17th century. A descendant of an old princely family which ruled a large latifundium in the south-eastern borderlands, ...

The aim of the article is to study the clergy who were present at the court in the last moments of King John III’s life and those who came to the capital immediately after his death. It seems that despite the monarch’s ...

An exceptionally small number of senators appeared at the Grodno Seym, among whom there were only three bishops: Józef Kossakowski, Ignacy Massalski and Wojciech Skarszewski. Their participation in the deliberations was ...

The first European settlers in America under the wing of the Pilgrim Fathers were convinced by them, that God and divine Providence helped them to live and work on the new land they arrived to. They were not only supposed ...