Piotr Skarga
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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 call
Kraków plaque commemorating Skarga
Skarga's Sermon, by Matejko, 1862. Skarga (standing, right) preaches, while King Sigismund III Vasa sits in the first row, left of center.
19th-century portrait of Piotr Skarga, National Museum in Kraków