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Foundation plaque of Cardinal
Zbigniew Oleśnicki
Foundation plaque of Cardinal
Zbigniew Oleśnicki
Credit:
Jan Mehlich
A
relief
depicting Cardinal
Zbigniew Oleśnicki
as the founder of a dormitory for
Jagiellonian University
students, offering the building to
Baby Jesus
. Oleśnicki,
bishop of Kraków
and Poland's first
cardinal
, was an influential statesman, acting as a regent during King
Vladislaus III's
reign. The plaque is now in the
Collegium Maius
, the oldest building of
Kraków
's Jagiellonian University, itself the second oldest in Central Europe.
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