Abstract
This edition of the life of Blessed John Cantius comes from the 7th edition of Lives of the Saints compiled by Piotr Skarga in 1610. The Life of Blessed John of Kęty is a pioneering work of the project ‘Critical Edition of Piotr Skarga’s Writings. Part 2: Lives of the Saints, Polemical and Catechetical Writings’, led by Magdalena Komorowska. Piotr Skarga was one of many men of letters commemorating the life of the pious professor and later patron of the Jagiellonian University, but the extraordinary popularity of Skarga’s hagiographical collection brought wide recognition to John of Kęty. The edition is preceded by an introduction to the reading, containing biographical information about St. John of Kęty, a description of the elements that create his hagiographical image, with particular emphasis on the miracles at his intercession, a short analysis of this life against the background of the entire collection of Lives of the Saints, and the principles of publication.
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