Polish Christian Monks - Polish Abbots, Jzef Andrzej Zauski, Karol Ferdynand Vasa, Micha Jerzy Poniatowski, Andrzej Stanisaw Zauski (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Polish Abbots, Jzef Andrzej Zauski, Karol Ferdynand Vasa, Micha Jerzy Poniatowski, Andrzej Stanisaw Zauski, Stanisaw Samostrzelnik, Stanisaw ubieski, Stanisaw Zaremba, Adam of Wgrowiec, Andrzej Leszczyski, Konstanty Kazimierz Brzostowski, Bogusaw Radoszewski, Pawe Piasecki, Wojciech Dbocki. Excerpt: Jzef Andrzej Zauski (12 January 1702 9 January 1774) was a Polish Catholic priest, Bishop of Kiev, sponsor of science and culture, and known bibliophile. A member of Polish nobility (szlachta) of Junosza coat of arms, he is perhaps most famous as the founder of the Zauski Library, one of the largest 18th-century collections of books in the world . Together with his brother Andrzej Stanisaw Zauski he was raised by his uncles (Andrzej Chryzostom Zauski, bishop of Warmia, and Ludwik Zauski, bishop of Pock). Jzef was educated in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Warsaw, Gdask, Krakw) as well as abroad (Sorbonne in Paris). He took Holy Orders in 1727. In his career he was a Great Crown Referendary (referendarz wielki koronny) from 1728 and canon of Cracow. As a supporter of King Stanisaw Leszczyski he accompanied him to France in the 1730s, where he was a royal chaplain on the royal court of Leszczyski's wife, Queen Katarzyna Opaliska. He controlled some of the Church's property in France; after his return to Poland he became the abbot of Wchock. In 1759 he became the bishop of Kiev and in 1762 he led the synod of the diocese. He was active on the Polish political scene, opposing King Stanisaw August Poniatowski, as well as the interference of the Russian empire in Polish domestic matters. For that, in 1767 (at the Repnin Sejm) he was arrested by Russian ambassador Nicholas Repnin, and until 1773 he was imprisoned in Kaluga, Ru... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4480348