Bernard Maciejowski
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Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski,
Archbishop of Gniezno
and Primate of Poland (between 1606 and 1608).
Biography
Maciejowski was a scion (
Piława coat of arms. His uncle, Samuel Maciejowski, was the archbishop of Kraków
.
He studied at the Łuck in 1588. In his function of Bishop of Lutsk he founded and had built a Jesuit college in Lublin in 1591–1596. He was part of the preparations leading to the Union of Brest
.
In 1600 he was again promoted as he became a bishop of Kraków, his ingressus (official entry) into the Wawel Cathedral took place on 12 August 1600.
Bishop Bernard called a council of church (
cardinal. In 1606 he became the archbishop of Gniezno, the most important Church position in the country, also one of the most important positions in the functioning of the state, as during the Polish interregnum the archbishop of Gniezno was also an Interrex
.
Maciejowski started reforming the Polish Church in the spirit and teachings of the Council of Trident. In his capacity of the archbishop of Poland was a follower of the Counter-Reformation, and he endorsed and sought to venerate Jadwiga of Poland and her black Crucifix located at the Wawel Cathedral. Since 1603 he had promoted the veneration of John Cantius, future saint
.
He was involved in the Jan Latosz controversy and professor's removal from the Jagiellonian University. During his tenure as the bishop of Kraków and archbishop of Poland, Maciejowski had many repairs and rebuilding projects carried under his wings, in Kraków and elsewhere. He was famous for his charity work and services.
Maciejewski married the future False Dmitriy I) and future tsarina Maryna Mniszech (Marina Mniszech
).
Maciejowski had the now famous
Abbas I of Persia
. The inscription on the bottom of the first page on the manuscript says: Potentissimo Persarum Regi, Bernardus Macieuskius sacrae Romanae Ecclesiae Presbiter Cardinalis Episcopus Cracouiensis Dux Sebierinesis Regni Poloniae Senator veram felicitatem exoptans offert Cracoviae Regni Poloniae Metropoli Die spetima Septembris Anno Salutis Humanae Millesimo sexcentesimo quarto.
He was buried in the
St. Francis of Assisi's Church, Kraków
, the monastery that he ordered rebuilt.
His contemporary chronicler Rajnold Hejdensztejn (Reinhold Heidenstein) in his work Rerum Polonicarum praised Maciejowski's literacy and learning.
Bibliography
- Reinhold Heidenstein, Rerum Polonicarum ab excessu Sigismundi Augusti libri XII, Frankfurt a/Main 1672
- M. Gliszczyński (editor) "Dzieje Polski do śmierci Zygmunta Augusta do r. 1594, t. 1-2, Petersburg 1857,
- Kasper Niesiecki,Polish Armorial - "Korona Polska przy złotey wolnosci starożytnemi Rycerstwa Polskiego y Wielkiego Xięstwa Litewskiego kleynotami naywyższymi Honorami Heroicznym, Męstwem y odwagą, Wytworną Nauką a naypierwey Cnotą, nauką Pobożnością, y Swiątobliwością ozdobiona Potomnym zaś wiekom na zaszczyt y nieśmiertelną sławę Pamiętnych w tey Oyczyźnie Synow podana TOM ... Przez X. Kaspra Niesieckego Societatis Jesu", Lwów (now Lviv), 1738, vol 6, p 310–314.
References
External links
- Virtual tour Gniezno Cathedral Archived 2020-07-17 at the Wayback Machine
- List of Primates of Poland
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