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Piotr Skarga (less often Piotr Powęski; 2 February 1536 – 27 September 1612) 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".
- Piotr Powęski
Apr 9, 2024 · Piotr Skarga (born February 1536, Grójec, Masovia—died Sept. 27, 1612, Kraków) was a militant Jesuit preacher and writer, the first Polish representative of the Counter-Reformation. After a difficult childhood during which both his parents died, he studied at Jagiellonian University, then became rector of a parish school in Warsaw.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Piotr Skarga herbu Pawęża, SJ [1], inna forma nazwiska: Piotr Powęski, mylnie: Pawęski (ur. 2 lutego 1536 w Grójcu, zm. 27 września 1612 w Krakowie) – polski jezuita, teolog, pisarz i kaznodzieja, czołowy polski przedstawiciel kontrreformacji, kaznodzieja nadworny Zygmunta III Wazy, rektor Kolegium Jezuitów w Wilnie, pierwszy rektor ...
The Sermon of Piotr Skarga or Skarga's Sermon (Polish: Kazanie Skargi) is a large oil painting by Jan Matejko, finished in 1864, now in the National Museum, Warsaw in Poland. It depicts a sermon on political matters by the Jesuit priest Piotr Skarga , a chief figure of the Counter Reformation in Poland, where he rebukes the Polish elite for ...
- 224 cm × 397 cm (88 in × 156 in)
- Jan Matejko
SKARGA, PIOTR°. SKARGA, PIOTR ° ( Piotr Powecki ; 1536–1612), Polish Jesuit preacher and antisemite. Skarga was one of the leaders of the Uniate Church in Brest ( *Brest-Litovsk ), which recognized papal authority. He supported the candidacy of King Sigismund iii Vasa (1587–1632) for the Polish throne and upon the latter's selection was ...
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"Piotr Skarga" published on by null. (1536–1612),Polish theologian and nationalist, a native of Grójec who joined the Jesuit Order in 1569 and ten years later became head of the Jesuit Academy at Vilnius.
SKARGA, PIOTR. Eminent Polish preacher, theologian, and apologist; b. Gr ó jec, Mazovia, 1536; d. Cracow, Sept. 27, 1612. He attended the parish school at Gr ó jec, went on to the University of Cracow (B.A. 1554), was ordained at Lvov (1564), and entered the Jesuit novitiate.
