Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

many towns."[25] On the other side, the testimony
to Radziwill's zeal as a Reformer is equally
emphatic. We find the legate, Lippomani,
reproaching him thus: -- " Public rumor says that
the Palatine of Vilna patronises all heresies, and
that all the dangerous innovators are gathering
under his protection; that he erects, wherever his
influence reaches, sacrilegious altars against the
altar of God, and that he establishes pulpits of
falsehood against the pulpits of truth." Besides
these scandalous deeds, the legate charges
Radziwill with other heinous transgressions against
the Papacy, as the casting down the images of the
saints, the forbidding of prayers to the dead, and
the giving of the cup to the laity; by all of which he
had greatly offended against the Holy Father, and
put his own salvation in peril set about writing a
work against "the apostates of Germany," which
resulted in his own conversion to Protestantism. He
communicated his change of mind to his brother,
Bishop of Pola, who at first opposed, and at last
embraced his opinions. The Bishop of Pola soon
after met his fate, though how is shrouded in
mystery. The Bishop of Capo d'Istria was witness
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