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Jan 13, 2023 · For many of you, it may come as a surprise, but the Mother of God (Mary or Maria) is known in Poland as the Queen of the Polish Nation. The justification for this title dates back to the 17th century, when the victory over the Swedes and the miraculous defense of Jasna Góra (1655) were attributed to the intercession of the Mother of God.
Jun 28, 2016 · However, Poland’s internal decline began in the 17th century. Bohdan Khmelnytsky, head of the Cossacks, led a 1648 rebellion aimed at gaining Ukrainian independence from Poland. Hundreds of...
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According to Kasper Cichocki, who wrote in the early 17th century, only remnants of Catholicism were left there in his time. Lutheranism was strongly dominant in Royal Prussia throughout the 17th century, with the exception of Warmia (Ermland).
The changes that took place during the 17th century defined the character of Polish Catholicism for centuries to come. [9] The apex of the Counter-Reformation activity had fallen on the turn of the 17th century, the earlier years of the reign of Sigismund III Vasa ( Zygmunt III Waza ), who in cooperation with the Jesuits and some other Church ...
May 11, 2015 · A History of Polish Christianity. Cambridge University Press, 2000. What little Calvinist presence still lingered were largely wiped out after the mid 17th century. Confronted by invasions and foreign occupation, Polish Catholicism was galvanised by John II Casimir of Poland with the Lwów Oath.
Counter-reformation in Poland lasted from the mid-16th century until the mid-18th century and ended with the victory of the Catholic Church, which succeeded in significantly reducing the influence of Protestantism in Poland.
The first challenge to Catholicism's hegemony over Polish history arises during any discussion of the Reformation. Calvinism spread rapidly in Po-land during the sixteenth century, further complicating the country's already heterogeneous blend of Catholics, Jews, Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Catholics, and even Muslims.
