Tomasz Młodzianowski
Tomasz Młodzianowski (coat of arms Dąbrowa) (born 21 December 1622 near Ciechanów, died 3 or 9 October 1686 in Wolbrom) was a Polish Jesuit, preacher and writer. Life. He was a member of Mazovian yeomanry ("drobna szlachta"). In 1637 he began the Jesuit novitiate. In 1648 he received the holy orders. From 1654 to 1656 he was a missionary in Isfahan. While coming back he visited the Holy Land. He has been a lecturer in the colleges in various cities of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and a chaplain. In 1673 he became the deputy provincial. From 1680 to  1683 he was the rector in the well-known college in Poznań. After his death king John III Sobieski said: "The order of the Society has a great loss in this man". He was buried in the church of saint Peter and Paul in Kraków. Works. He won the fame of a great preacher. In 1674 he was speaking in the coronation mass of John III Sobieski. He has written down 73 homilies and 179 sermons. He used to publish occasional speeches separately. The rest is collected in his "Kazania i Homilie" (Poznań 1681), with over 2,000 pages "in folio  in four volumes. He used to avoid macaronic language, speak clearly, make the lecture interesting through concepts, explain abstract ideas to the audience (e.g. comparing the apostles to the MPs), include proverbs. His other works are: