Mowy katolików i ewangelików na pogrzebach biskupów Eustachego Wołłowicza i Marcjana Tryzny

ENThe article presents examples of oratory connected with two Vilnius bishops, Eustachy Wołłowicz and Marcjan Tryzna, at whose funerals speeches were delivered by both Catholics and Protestants. Wołłowicz was commemorated by the Jesuit Jakub Olszewski, the treasurer of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Stefan Pac and hetman Krzysztof Radziwiłł, the leader of Lithuanian dissenters. Marcjan Tryzna was paid tribute to by the Calvinist Piotr Kochlewski and by Melchior Stanisław Sawicki, a graduate of the Vilnius Academy and author of a panegyric (described as a speech in the dedication) published in Vilnius by the printing house owned by the Basilian order. The Catholic orators presented the bishops according to Counter-Reformation models as ideal shepherds of the Church, fighting with the infidel and trying to convert dissenters. The speeches that were published contain valuable biographical information and stress the pastoral work and political involvement of the deceased. The Protestants, on the other hand, focused on the Catholic bishops’ role in public life and stressed that due to private acquaintance their deaths also affected them personally. The Calvinists’ orations feature no religious motifs but many classical allusions.