Michał Olszewski (priest)
Michał Olszewski (Lithuanian language, Lithuanian: Mykolas Olševskis also Ališauskis, Alšauskis, Olšauskis; ) was a Lithuanians, Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1753, he published a Lithuanian language collection of religious readings (The Gate Open to Eternity) which became very popular and over the next hundred years was reprinted at least sixteen more times. Despite its popularity, ''Broma'' was criticized both for its naive content and impure language full of loanwords and Barbarism (linguistics), barbarisms. Biography Very little is known about Olszewski's life in part because his order prohibited to publicize one's work. He was likely born around 1712 in the district of Raseiniai and joined the Canons Regular of the Penitence of the Blessed Martyrs, an Augustinians, Augustinian order, as a young man. He spent three years at the monastery in Videniškiai and ...
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