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So we've got a ruptured ulcer again, but this time not in a pope, but in his envoy! The man in question is certainly Cardinal Enrico Caetani, whom Clement VIII sent as a legate to Poland and tasked him with convincing King Sigismund III to join a Habsburg coalition against the Ottoman Empire. The mission failed, by the way, as Maximilian III Habsburg was still claimed claiming the Polish throne for himself after an inconclusive royal election.
[[File:Enrico_Caetani.jpg|thumb|200px|Cardinal Enrico Caetani (1550–1599)]]
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| There are no Jews [in Warka], but there are many rich burghers who brew the best beer you can get in all of Poland (which doesn't mean much, though). But, as far as this beer is concerned, I should not forget a story which the Poles tell about a cardinal who was once a nuncio in Poland; he had become so accustomed to the beer of Varka, that while dying, he called out for that beverage, as if it was to restore him back to health. He wanted it so bad, that he kept whispering, bière de Varka, bière de Varka. And his assistants, believing it to be some saint from a foreign land, whom the good man was invoking in agony, having just recited the litany of saints, added la sainte bière de Varka, as a new patron saint known only to the dying cardinal.
| źródło = {{Cyt
| nazwisko = Dalairac
| imię = François-Paulin
The cardinal's name does not appear in this account. It couldn't have been Saluzzo, as he hadn't even been born in 1700. Was it Caetani then? Perhaps, but the puzzle's final solution keeps eluding us.
And maybe you know of some other source which could shed some more light on this subject? Or maybe you have your own guesses? Let me know in the comments. If you know other anecdotes related to Polish cuisine and wonder how much truth there is to them, then do let me know in the comments as well.
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[[Category: Warsaw]]
[[Category: Boleslav V, Duke of Masovia]]
[[Category: Clement VIII]]
[[Category: Samuel Bogumił Linde]]
[[Category: Early Modern Period]]
[[pl:Święta Piwa z Warki]]