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Mediating Confessions in Central Europe: The Ecumenical Activity of Valerian Magni, 1586–1661

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2004

HOWARD LOUTHAN
HOWARD LOUTHAN
Affiliation:
Professor Howard Louthan, Department of History, University of Florida, PO Box 117320, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7320, USA; e-mail: louthan@history.ufl.edu
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Abstract

The Capuchin friar, Valerian Magni, was one of the most influential churchmen of the first half of the seventeenth century. A confidant of Pope Urban VIII, an advisor to the emperor Ferdinand II and an intimate of the Polish king Władysław IV, Magni worked tirelessly as a religious mediator for nearly fifty years. This article investigates his ecumenical activity in two major arenas, Bohemia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In the Czech kingdom Magni collaborated with young Archbishop Harrach to counter the Jesuits' harsher policies of reCatholicisation while in Poland he endeavoured to reunite both Protestant and Orthodox communities with the Catholic Church.

Type
Research Article
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The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 55 , Issue 4 , October 2004 , pp. 681 - 699
Copyright
© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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