Piotr II Bal


Piotr II Bal coat of arms Gozdawa - son of Matias III, Polish nobleman of Hoczwi, brother of Jan, married to Jadwiga of Szczekarzowice, Sanocki subcommittee 1598-1620, founder of Baligour (1634), founder of Jesuit College in Krosno.

After his father he inherited the village of Stężnica together with the castle, Radziowa, Łopiennik, Zayszkowa will, Symkowa, Górzanka, Huczwice and Rabe. In his youth he visited Bavarian Ingolstadt. In that city he made contact with the then-Catholic theologians Fr. Jerzy de Valentina and Jakub Gretscher, assisted by Andrzej Bobola (subcommittees). According to reports, they were to persuade Peter "to be right with Catholic beliefs and to cause him to abandon Calvinism." This change of faith and religious beliefs probably influenced the record made in 1615 for the Jesuit Order in Krosno amounting to 10,000 zloty. to build a church and college.

Piotr Bal was described among others. in the work of Kaspra Cichocki "Alloquiorum Osiecensium libri quinque" (1615). According to Cichocki, Piotr Bal was also to rebuild the monastery in Sanok with the church and support the Jesuit college there. The historian Franciszek Siarczynski described the activity of the subcommite Peter: "Having his estate in the Carpathian mountains, he was very much in the pursuit of the enlightenment and the oppression of the highlanders. He had cleaned the people of Bydgoszcz from the robbers, the town of Baligród with the castle and staged there. "He was planted in churches and nurseries, priests set in."

Offspring: sons Adam and Stefan, daughters Anna, Zofia and Agnieszka.

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