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Mikołaj Łęczycki

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Polish Catholic theologian, writer and mystic

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According to Wikipedia, Mikołaj Łęczycki , in Latin Nicolaus Lancicius was a Polish Jesuit, Catholic theologian, writer and mystic. Life Łęczycki was born near Nesvizh, the son of a printer Daniel of Łęczyca and Katarzyna Gotart. At the age of 18, Łęczycki converted from Calvinism to Catholicism, and persuaded his father to do it as well. On February 17, 1592, he entered the Society of Jesus. He spent several years in Rome, where he was studying and working with Niccolò Orlandini in the congregation's central archive to compile the history of Jesuits. During the stay, he received the holy orders on April 14, 1601. Łęczycki returned to Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1607, bringing many relics for Jesuit churches. He was a professor at the Vilnius University and Lviv college, the rector in Kalisz and Kraków, then he was working in Nesvizh, Braniewo, and what is now the Czech Republic. He was serving as a provincial for Lithuania and visited Rome several times. He was commonly considered a master of the spiritual life and a worker of miracles such as revelation, prophecy, healing, levitation, psychokinesis and bilocation. He died in Kaunas.

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