Why did Mieszko I get baptized Poland? What were his motives and what did the whole situation stem from? The Baptism of Poland was an unprecedented event in the history of our country. But why in a completely pagan country, which the Polish lands were at that time, such a move was made? Why the ruler of the whole country as Mieszko I accepted his own baptism and consequently Polish baptism?
There is probably no one simple answer to this question; we can only come somewhat close to the correct answer. As noted above, the conversion of the entire country to Christianity was largely politically motivated. Our greatest neighbors, who were also our greatest threat, were Catholics.
They could easily attack our country under the pretext of defending Christianity. Secondly, the official change of religion facilitated relations with the West. Most of Europe at that time was already Christian, and the remaining pagan countries quite quickly changed their religions. Thirdly, prestige in the international arena mattered, which without the support of the majority of powers, and without the support of the papacy, we could never achieve. The immediate political cause was the alliance with our southern neighbour, the Czechs, and Mieszko I's marriage to Princess Dobrawa.
The simplest answer to the question "why Mieszko I baptized Poland?" will be that he did it for political reasons and because of the general mood in europe at the time.
When we hear about the baptism of Poland we usually think of the events of 966 or that symbolic event involving Mieszko the First. This is not quite true because the Christianization of the Polish state is a long process and I am talking about it today. It all probably begins in 966 when there was a defeat of the Polish army in the war against the German army. It was also then that Otto the First decided to establish an archbishopric in Magdeburg within whose borders Poland was then. The situation is clear Poland pagan Germany create archbishoprics and with the approval of the Pope conquer Poland for the purpose of Christianization. An additional threat were the Bohemians who associated themselves with the Medicis. Such a coalition meant the end of the Polish state. Mieszko the first decided to marry a Bohemian good thus breaking the Bielecki Bohemian alliance and at the same time accepting baptism making Poland no longer pagan. However, at least in theory, Boleslaw Chrobry did the most for Christianization and he should be considered the author of Christian Poland. Why because even though Poland was no longer pagan and rather Christianization expeditions from Germany were not a threat it was still Polish Church It was subject to the German metropolis. And here with help came Bishop Adalbert whose detailed story I will tell tomorrow. For he was indeed a real devil in human skin. Bishop Adalbert was banished from Prague. He was, shall we say, embraced by Boleslaw the Brave. This mu said listen go to Prussia and convert these people on behalf of Poland. Chrobry thus earned himself the pope and Adalbert found safe location. The bishop himself, however, was quite a radical Christian and some people did not like his conversion by force, which is why he was killed, and exactly the head was taken by the Oder. Boleslaw the Brave paid for the body of Adalbert as much gold as his body weighed and deposited it in the church in Gniezno. After what Everything. In order to become independent from Germany one had to create one's own archdiocese in Poland. And to do that you need to have a relic or a body of a saint. And as Adalbert was liked by the Pope there was no problem at all to make him a saint at the request of Boleslaw the Brave. So it happened and in 999 there was a canonization of St Adalbert who became a patron of Poland. And so Poland became an independent Christian power.
Welcome. Today we meet Czesław Białczyński. Welcome. Good morning. We will talk about words, as usual. Maybe we should start with the topic of the citadel in Nowy Sącz. Something was found there. Each of these tribes, each of these roads, each of these smaller communities live as if at home in their own area and according to their own laws and are not subject to any particular pressure or higher tributes that would serve some kind of common organization of some kind of higher order. This first group, which enters Europe, it turns out, is a people who have this mutation characteristic of the male Y D chromosome and the haplogroup is called R1A. And these are the Scythians, they are the ones who enter here with their language. These 10 thousand years before our era and they come across these old Europeans, the Scythians, as if they were the bearers of this faith in nature and of all these original legends, which were transferred in this backward movement from Europe to the East. The backward movement of these heroic peoples. How this is known. It is known from genetics because not only from genetics because from the records of tsarist chronicles also these are two neighbouring groups I and from more or less the same time they arose 30 thousand years ago. On this side in Europe we have and to the north by the Black Sea we have and in Little Asia we have J. To make it funnier the Jews and the Palestinians and the Syrians and the mass of the population in Turkey and the mass of the population in Iran Iraq are such a group J.
