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The article focuses on the iconography of Piotr Skarga, Jesuit preacher who lived at the turn of the the 17th century, the author of the Lives of the Saints, numerous sermons as well as Counter-Reformation writings, and it includes a survey of texts published after his death up till the 1850’s. Skarga, who immediately after his death in 1612 was considered an unexampled religious person, a paragon...