4) Simeon Mogila was the ruler of Wallachia from the end of 1601 and of Moldavia in 1607.
&) Some consider the father of P. Mogila to be Jeremiah (Maoie,]oigvki, Rytieppisichio roivkie etc. Sh) and even John (Description of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, dated 1847.
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The time of birth of Peter Mogila is usually referred to by all his biographers as 1597'). It seems to us that this is not entirely accurate. If we take into account, on the one hand, Ierlich’s testimony, which is usually relied upon when determining the time of Mogila’s birth, the testimony that “our metropolitan lived in this world for a full fifty years” 2), and on the other hand, the panegyrics that have reached you, presented by II. The grave in the days of his name day, which was not long before the feast of the Nativity of Christ, - then the birthday of our metropolitan, who died on the night of January 1, 1647, should be pushed back to the twentieth of December 1596 3).
p. 142). All this can only indicate the extreme uncertainty of information about our Metropolitan. Let us note here that II. Mogila himself, in his own handwritten notes, calls John his grandfather, and Jeremiah stroem (uncle). As for the Mogila brothers, they are listed by Nesetsky in the following order: Michael and Gabriel, the Moldavian governors, our metropolitan, John, who spent his knightly life in Hungary, and Mopsey, who twice ascended to the throne of the ruler Moldova.
*) Met. Evgeniy, Askochensky, Zakrevsky, Kostomarov and others.
*) Laiorisies |eg1isga, schi. IGoisskiedo, 1853, vol. I, p. 59.
*) Several panegyrics presented to Peter the Great on the day of his nanny, as well as on the day of the Nativity of Christ, are in the library of the ■re gievo-sof. cathedral, where they are bound in one book with other old printed brochures. But they are especially remarkable for their richness and floridness - Reiikh sosheya rosi falls <No ііішіжігіті Votini es YavtegoaFbviti Raigov V. ReSgi MyiIa Agsier. These are the same types of products. sch. 1633, and a panegyric in Polish and Latin, without initial pages. In these panegyrics, by the way, it is said that the keta, who appeared before the Birth. Christ and a few days after the birth of II. Graves are a true auspicious harbinger of happiness. Having explained what this happiness consists of, the panegyrists ask themselves the following question: why the birth of the metropolitan they praised did not happen on the same day as the Nativity of the Savior, but a little earlier; they solve it as follows: Iegr Mogila should have been born on the same day with Christ; but the very luminaries with their applause could not satisfy both together; the earth was not able to support two great miracles of nature; the heavens did not want to merge into
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Incomparably more important than a precise determination of the time of birth is the solution to other questions that naturally arise when one wants to get to know the remarkable personality of Peter Mogila better - namely: how did he spend his youthful upbringing, where was he brought up, what kind of education did he receive? - Unfortunately, we have almost no positive information about the initial life and the circumstances among which our famous metropolitan was brought up. Of the monuments that have reached us from that time, only in the spiritual testament of Peter Mogila is there one, and then expressed in the most general terms, a tsamek regarding the object of the name; this is Mogila’s statement that he was “born and raised in the holy (Orthodox) faith, in which he wishes to stand before the greatness of the Lord* *). The information about the initial life of P. Mogila and in biographical essays about him is so scanty and at the same time uncertain. Thus, according to some biographers, he studied Greek and Latin, verbal sciences and theology, it is unknown in which schools *), others say that he was sent by his father to study at Parnassus and other foreign universities 3); still others, finally, consider the Lviv fraternal school as the place of Mogila’s education *).
We do not know where the last two news about the place of formation of P. Mogila were taken from; in the modern monuments that have reached our time, as we have noticed, there are no indications regarding this. Nevertheless, it seems to us that both of the above news have a lot of data in support of their reliability and at the same time do not exclude each other.