1569

This town on the Czarna River, about 40 miles north-east of Krakow, was founded as a refuge for anti-trinitarian Socinians.

1601

Faustus Socinus convened a meeting of a dozen leading ministers of the anti-trinitarian Minor Church to discuss doctrinal matters. The meeting, which lasted 3 weeks, was productive and successful.

1602

The Minor Church established a school here, which soon grew to 1,000 students.

1638

The school and the press of the anti-trinitarian Minor Church were destroyed by order of the Polish Senate. Their destruction was brought about by an incident that gave the Catholic forces an excuse to act. A group of children from the Minor Church's school had been caught throwing rocks at a crucifix erected by a Catholic nobleman, breaking it down. Their parents tried to make amends, and a Socinian nobleman even offered to help build a Catholic church in the city, but to no avail. All "Arians" were required to leave the city within 4 weeks under pain of death.

1640

The local Catholic bishop laid the cornerstone for a Catholic church where the Socinian Church had recently stood.

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