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Gniezno Doors
The Gniezno Doors () are a pair of bronze doors at the entrance to Gniezno Cathedral in Gniezno, Poland, a Gothic building which the doors predate, having been carried over from an earlier building. They are decorated with eighteen bas-relief scenes from the life of St. Adalbert (in Polish, "Wojciech"), whose remains had been purchased for their weight in gold (scene 16) and brought back to, and enshrined in, the cathedral. The doors were made about 1175, in
Giovanni Battista Businski
Giovanni Battista Businski was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno (1667–?).
Biography.
On 7 Mar 1667, Giovanni Battista Businski was appointed during the papacy of Pope Alexander VII as Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno and Titular Bishop of "Halmiros." On 11 Sep 1667, he was consecrated bishop by Tomasz Leżeński, Bishop of Lutsk, with Stefan Wierzbowski, Bishop of Poznań, and Mikołaj Oborski, Titular Bishop of "Laodicea in Syria", serving as co