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4 days ago · Casimir’s mother was Jadwiga, daughter of Bolesław the Pious (Pobożny) of Great Poland. After the death of his elder brother in 1312, Casimir was regarded as heir and was prepared for the kingship by Jarosław, later archbishop of Gniezno and Casimir’s counsellor. Upon his father’s death Casimir became king of Poland in 1333.
5 days ago · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Boleslaw Szymanski, Ph.D., and Chunyu Wang, M.D. Ph.D., have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement Science (AAAS). Steven Cramer, Ph.D., who was elected AAAS Fellow in 2017, was elected Council Member of the Section on Engineering.
1 day ago · The same Pope Stephen, in order to make Jordan’s beginnings more pleasant for the clergy and people of Poland, gave him the sword of St. Peter, with which the apostle, as they believe, cut off ...
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2 days ago · On October 15, 2023, Poland’s Law and Justice Party, commonly known by its Polish acronym “PiS,” lost the majority vote in the Parliamentary election. Three opposition parties, the Civic Coalition, The Left, and the Centrist Third Way commanded around fifty-four percent of the votes. [2]
1 day ago · Demographics. Poland has a population of approximately 38.2 million as of 2021, and is the ninth-most populous country in Europe, as well as the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. [281] It has a population density of 122 inhabitants per square kilometre (320 inhabitants/sq mi). [282]
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4 days ago · Joseph Pronechen is staff writer with the National Catholic Register since 2005 and before that a regular correspondent for the paper.His articles have appeared in a number of national publications including Columbia magazine, Soul, Faith and Family, Catholic Digest, Catholic Exchange, and Marian Helper.
1 day ago · Poland retained religious freedom laws during an era when religious persecution was an everyday occurrence in the rest of Europe. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a place where the most radical religious sects, trying to escape persecution in other countries of the Christian world, sought refuge.
