page_title: Kazimierz Łyszczyński
section_title: Execution
hierarchical_section_title: Kazimierz Łyszczyński / Life / Execution
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Художественный конверт с оригинальной маркой «375 лет со дня рождения Казимира Лыщинского», подготовленный ИЦ «Марка» РУП «Белпочта». Иллюстрация - 375 лет со дня рождения Казимира Лыщинского. Мыслитель, общественно-политический деятель, педагог — на бел. языке, сцена казни К. Лыщинского. Художник - Микола Рыжий.Беларуская: Казімір Лышчынскі. 1634-1689. 375 гадоў з дня нараджэння Казіміра Лышчынскага. Мысліцель, грамадска-палітычны дзеяч, педагог.
context_page_description: Kazimierz Łyszczyński, also known in English as Casimir Liszinski, was a Polish nobleman, philosopher, and soldier in the ranks of the Sapieha family, who was accused, tried, and executed for atheism in 1689.
  For eight years he studied philosophy as a Jesuit and then became a podsędek in legal cases against the Jesuits concerning estates. He wrote a treatise entitled On the non-existence of God and was later executed on charges of atheism. His trial has been criticised and is seen as a case of legalised religious murder in Poland.
context_section_description: The sentence was carried out before noon in the Old Town Market Place in Warsaw, where his tongue was pulled out followed by a beheading. After that, his corpse was transported beyond the city borders and cremated.
  Bishop Załuski gave the following account of the execution:
  After recantation the culprit was conducted to the scaffold, where the executioner tore with a burning iron the tongue and the mouth, with which he had been cruel against God; after which his hands, the instruments of the abominable production, were burnt at a slow fire, the sacrilegious paper was thrown into the flames; finally himself, that monster of his century, this deicide was thrown into the expiatory flames; expiatory if such a crime may be atoned for.
caption: 2009 Belarusian drawing of Łyszczyński's execution.
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