Cassian Sakowicz

[1] He was born in a town of Podtelisz[2] (today village Potelych, Lviv Oblast), Belz Voivodeship (Palatinatus Belzensis).

He finished the Zamojski Academy and Jagiellonian University[2] at the ruler's court in Przemysl, under King Athanasius' protection.

Sakowicz was a private teacher of Adam Kisiel and an activist of the Enlightenment movement of Orthodox brotherhood.

[2] Sakowicz was the rector of the Orthodox brotherhood school in Kyiv (predecessor of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) from 1620 to 1624 where he taught poetry, rhetoric and philosophy.

[3] 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.

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 HRG Strong Host of Zaporizhia" (На Гербъ Силного Войска Е.К.М. Запорозкого)