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Piotr Skarga, Polish Jesuit and polemicist (born 1536)

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Piotr Skarga

Polish writer

Piotr Skarga 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".
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