In 1759, hundreds of Jews were baptized Catholic in Poland — then the Church itself arrested and investigated their leader over secret doctrines hidden beneath his Christian profession. The Frankist conversion, Aquinas’s theology of insincere baptism, & what the Church’s tribunal actually concluded.
TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Cold Open 0:05 – INTRODUCTION 1:33 – PART 1: A Warning From the Apostles (Acts 8, Simon Magus) 3:12 – PART 2: The Sect That Broke From Israel (Sabbatai Zevi, the 1756 herem) 5:27 – PART 3: An Alliance of Convenience (Kamieniec 1757, Lwów 1759 disputation) 7:54 – PART 4: The Mass Baptisms of 1759 9:30 – PART 5: The Denunciation That Broke the Spell (Pikulski, the Jan. 7 1760 arrest) 13:06 – PART 6: Thirteen Years Behind the Walls (Częstochowa, crypto-Frankism, the Black Madonna, the Marian defense) 16:54 – PART 7: What St. Thomas Already Knew (Aquinas on fictio, ST III Q.68–69) 21:43 – CONCLUSION
SOURCES FOR THIS VIDEO Scripture Acts 8:9–24 — Douay-Rheims (Simon Magus) Scholastic St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae III, Q. 68, A. 7 (intention required for valid baptism) and Q. 69, A. 9–10 (insincerity/fictio) Historiography Paweł Maciejko, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1816 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), “Frank, Jacob, and the Frankists” YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, “Frankism” Aleksander Kraushar, Frank i Frankiści Polscy (1895)
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DISCLAIMER: This video presents historical theological sources for educational purposes. The teaching documented is theological/doctrinal opposition, not racial hatred. Individual Jews can convert and be saved. Violence against Jews is condemned.
