Andrew Bobola
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Andrew Bobola, SJ was a Polish missionary and martyr of the Society of Jesus, known as the "Apostle of Lithuania" and the "hunter of souls". He was beaten and tortured to death during the Khmelnytsky
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Andrzej Bobola memorial church in Janów Poleski, 19th-century image
The altar with the relics of the arm of Andrew Bobola in the church of Il Gesù in Rome
Robber baron (feudalism)
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A robber baron or robber knight was an unscrupulous feudal landowner who, protected by his fief's legal status, imposed high taxes and tolls out of keeping with the norm without authorization by some
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…arms. He certainly founded the family seat in Bobolice. However, only a few decades later, his heirs lost Bobolice to the Cistercians from Henryków for raubritterism. In the first half of the 14th century, the Bobola family appears in the circle of the powerful Tarnowski family, also bearing the Leliwa coat of arms…
Legendary Raubritter Eppelein von Gailingen (1311–1381) during his escape from Nuremberg Castle