1570

Martin Czechowicz & Jan Niemojewski moved here from Rakow. Martin assumed leadership of the Minor Church congregation. Under his leadership for the next 3 decades, the Lublin congregation became one of the most influential in the Minor Church.

1575

Martin Czechowicz published an important work against infant baptism, which became a classic on the subject.

1598

Jan Niemojewski died.

Martin Czechowicz retired from the ministry.

1613

Martin Czechowicz died. He was 81 years old.

1615

Socinian minister Jan Stoinski and Jesuit scholar Nicholas Leczycki engaged in a debate on the eternal divinity of Christ. The debate, which lasted 3 hours, was held in a church full of dignitaries, but the general populace was excluded to assure proper order.

1616

Socinian minister Jan Stoinski and Dominican monk Waleryan Grocholski engaged in a debate on the Trinity and the incarnation. The debate was held in the Dominican church, and was conducted in Latin, at the insistence of the Dominicans, so as to exclude the common people. The debate ended peacefully, but later in the evening a riot broke out during which the Calvinist meeting-place was destroyed.

1627

A group of Jesuit students, after drinking in a public house and fighting with some Protestant Germans, soon initiated an anti-Protestant riot which left the Calvinist and the Socinian churches demolished.

1635

By decree of the Tribunal, the Socinian church was ordered "closed forever". The Jesuits then took over the site of the Socinian meeting-place. For the next decade the Socinians took refuge on the estate of a wealthy nobleman at Piaski a few miles away.

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