Spreading the Catholic Faith in the Periphery. Jesuit Mission in Polish Livonia (1625–1772)

The region of Latgale/Polish Livonia lies on the intersection between Lutheran northern half Baltic and Roman Catholic southern part. Almost all local German nobility had accepted Lutheranism, but was politically a part Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jesuit missionaries tried to re-Catholicise this region. religious contact surrounding pagan countryside diligently noted in reports, which became less polemical during time period as region’s inhabitants turned Church. While were solitary fighters for Catholicism 1625, they become ordinary representatives elite by 1772, when ceded Russian Empire.