Cassian Sakowicz

A page with a fragment of the "Poems for mourning funeral of the noble knight Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny («ВѢршѢ на жалосный погреб зацного рыцера Петра Конашевича Сагайдачного….»); title says "For coat of arms of the Strong Host of Zaporizhia" (На Гербъ Силного Войска Е.К.М. Запорозкого)

Cassian Sakowicz, also known as Kasjan Sakowicz (1578–1647), was a Polish–Ruthenian Orthodox activist, and later a Catholic theologian, writer and polemicist.

Biography Cassian Sakowicz was born in family of an Orthodox priest as Kalikst Isakowicz. He was born in a town of Podtelisz (today village Potelych, Lviv Oblast), Belz Voivodeship (Palatinatus Belzensis). He finished the Zamojski Academy and Jagiellonian University

Sakowicz is an author of the 1622 "poems for mourning funeral of the noble knight Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny" that were read by students of the Kyiv brotherhood school at the 1622 funeral of Hetman Petro Konashevych Sahaidachny.