Kristina Poniatowská (1610 – 6 December 1644) was a Polish noblewoman and visionary.
Poniatowská was born in 1610 in
Łasin
Łasin (german: Lessen) is a town in Grudziądz County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, with 3,271 inhabitants (2004). It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Łasin. It lies approximately east of Grudzią ...
, Western
Prussia
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. Her father, Julian Poniatowa, was a Polish gentleman who, having escaped from a monastery and embraced
Protestantism
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, was at first minister at
Duchnick, in
Bohemia, then librarian of a nobleman. He probably brought up his daughter in mystical ideas, for he is said to be himself the author of a Latin dissertation on the knowledge which the angels may have of God. Christine had been entrusted to the care of the baroness of Zelking, who had taken a liking to her, when, on 12 November 1627, after severe pains, she fell into a trance, attended with visions and prophetic utterances relating to the future of the
Reformed Church. This strange state returned at regular intervals for a whole year, always attended with the same phenomena, and a number of people testified to its genuineness. 27 January 1629, the young visionary fell into so heavy a lethargy that she passed for dead, but when she finally recovered her senses she declared that her mission was fulfilled, and that she should thenceforth have no more visions. In 1632 she was married to a
Moravian minister,
Daniel Strejc-Vetterus Daniel Strejc treytz(Autumn of 1592 - probably 1669) was a Czech priest of the Unity of the Brethren. He is known for the travelogue ''Islandia'', about the journey to Iceland in 1613, first published in 1638. Strejc was also known under surnames V ...
, and died on 6 December 1644, at
Leszno
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, near
Posen. Her revelations, written by herself, were translated into Latin, and published by
John Amos Comenius
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, with those of
Christopher Kotter
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and
Nicolas Drabicki
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, under the title ''Lux in Tenebris'' (1657, 1659, 1665). They were retranslated into German by
Benedict Balmsen
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(Amsterdam, 1664).
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1610 births
1644 deaths
People from Grudziądz County