The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a Roman Catholic Polish Baroque church located at 54 Grodzka Street in the Old Town district of Kraków, Poland. It was built between 1597–1619 by Giovanni Maria Bernardoni who perfected the original design of Józef Britius. It is the biggest of the historic Churches of Kraków in terms of seating capacity. Since 1842 it serves the Catholic All Saints parish.
Main altar
The statues of Saints
The nave
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 called "the Polish Bossuet".
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