Aim: The aim of my article is to present Piotr Skarga’s Lives of the Saints in a parenetic and pedagogical context. This context includes showing the pedagogical value of the paper, describing the master-student relationship in the Lives of the Saints, which illustrates the examples of pedagogical methods, and presenting the paper from a historical perspective, including motives of its creation. Methods: An analysis of historical sources (Lives of the Saints). Results: Description of motives which led to creation of Lives of the Saints and its role in shaping morality, analysis a master-student relationship based on life of St. Anselm, description of the parenetic and pedagogical ideal following from the paper. Conclusions: Lives of the Saints is a multifunctional text, but most of all a moralizing one. The text was written mainly to promote Catholicism and to deplore Protestants. This fact was important for a historical context. The scientific value of Lives is small, but it’s extremely valuable in terms of moralizing, parenetic and pedagogical. The paper has features that make it a part of the system of parenetic pedagogy. Authority and references made to the authority constitute the basic pedagogical tool used by the author to show the human ideal. An extremely important thread in the paper, especially from the pedagogical perspective, is the master-student relationship. It shows the importance of the teacher/ master role in: a human life, development of faith and motivation in the pursuit of sacredness. Within Catholicism, Life of the Saints showed various ways to approach sacredness, which was a parenetic and pedagogical ideal. The paper promoted an individual approach to each person. Lives of the Saints had to inspire people to lead a better life.
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