Suffering Christ new file

T HE S UFFERING C HRIST 74 but which Solinus 2 calls a water snake – inhabited this cave and violently afflicted the entire neighborhood with continual slaughters of men and domestic animals. Therefore, Kracus, a man no less strong than prudent (from whom Krakow, our cap- ital has its name and draws its origin) devised an easy and equally very ingenious plan to do away with the impetuous beast. He ordered that the animal carcasses to be stuffed with tar, sulphur, and chips of kindling, be thrown before the dragon. As the dragon ate them most ravenously, the fire ig- nited and convulsed the beast’s insides with so much heat, that the thirsty beast swallowed so much of the pure water of the nearby Vistula River that it (the beast) burst asunder. This is not unlike the deed of Daniel put on record in the Sacred Scriptures. The great dragon was venerated by the Babylonians in place of God: Ordered to accomplish that same foolishness, Daniel refused magnanimously, and told the King: “I adore the Lord, my God: For he is the living God. But give King Sigismund I the Old. A specialist on Royal Prussia and Warmia, in 1551, Kromer became head of the Warmian canonry. However, his Church career did not proceed as planned, since he was seen as one of the best Polish diplo- mats of the age and was frequently required by the court to leave his post to serve as envoy on various diplomatic missions. In 1552, for his services to the King, he was ennobled and granted a coat of arms. From 1558 to 1564, Kromer served as Polish envoy to Emperor Ferdinand I, who in recognition of Kromer’s services added his own family coat-of-arms to Kromer’s. In 1564, Kromer was recalled to Poland, where he was promoted within the Church hierarchy and took the post of coadjutor (de facto bishop) of the Bishopric of Warmia, to succeed on the demise of Prince-Bishop Stanislaus Hosius. After nine years at that post, Kromer was officially promoted to Prince-Bishop. He spent the rest of his days in Warmia, keeping diaries and writing several books on the history of Poland. He died on 23 March 1589 in Heilsberg (Lidzbark Warminski). In his works, Kromer advocated the reform of Poland’s scientific and cultural life. 2 Gaius Julius Solinus, Latin grammarian and compiler, probably flourished in the early third century. Historical scholar Theodor Mommsen dates him to the middle of the third century. He was the author of De mirabilibus mundi ( The wonders of the world ) which circulated both under the title Collectanea rerum memorabilium ( Collection of Curiosities ), and Polyhistor , but the latter title was favoured by the author. The work is indeed a description of curiosities in a chorographical framework. Adventus, to whom it is dedicated, is identified with Oclatinius Adventus, consul 218. It contains a short description of the ancient world, with remarks on historical, social, religious, and natural history questions. The greater part is taken from Pliny’s Natural History and the ge- ography of Pomponius Mela (see Wikipedia).