Falconius John

Falconius John was a Pole or Lithuanian, of the noble and ancient family of the Falconii. The surname of this family, (in Polish, Sokolowicz, or Sokolowski, and Iastrzembski,) is derived from the Latin Falco, and denotes a Falcon. They have a falcon in the family arms.

John Falconius was Catechist, and Master of a School in Biala, a town of Podlachia, and in the Church of Bychawa ; and afterwards Minister of a Church at Mordy, in the same Palatinate. He was a different person from John Falconius, a Physician of Hameln, who died Nov. 26th, 1586. He held the same opinions as Gonesius, who converted him from Trinitarianism. Wengerscius says, that he retracted his opinions in the Synod of the Bohemian Brethren, held in 1588, but afterwards defended them again. The same author informs us, that he wrote an account of the Lithuanian Churches.

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