Jan Prandota (c. 1200 – 20 September 1266) was

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from 1242 to his death in 1266. He was member of the Odrowąż family.Jacek Maciejewski: Episkopat polski doby dzielnicowej, 1180-1320. Kraków 2003, p. 234. Prandota is recorded as having driven the

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s from his diocese, and was influential in achieving the

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, whose relics he

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in 1245. As part of an attempt in the 15th century by Bishop Zbigniew Oleśnicki to expand the cult of Saint Stanislaus, the tomb of Prandota was "miraculously and conveniently rediscovered" in Wawel Cathedral in 1454, lists of Prandota's miracles were recorded, and pilgrimages to the newly discovered burial site were encouraged. This veneration ceased in the 17th century, due to what the ''

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'' called a misinterpretation of the 1634

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''De cultu servorum Dei'' of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prandota, Jan 1200 births 1266 deaths Bishops of Kraków 13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Poland Odrowąż family