During Charles’s absence in Denmark in 1657, Oxenstierna in the most desperate circumstances, tenaciously defended Thorn for ten months, and the terms of capitulation ultimately obtained by him were so advantageous that they were made the basis of the subsequent peace negotiations at Oliva, between Poland and Sweden, when Oxenstierna was one of the chief plenipotentiaries of the Swedish regency.
In 1972 O'Rourke's ashes were moved from Campo Verano to his former bishopric in Poland; they were buried in a crypt in the Oliwa Cathedral.
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The interior also holds Rococo chapels of the Holy Cross and St John of Nepomuk, an ambo, tombstones, epitaphs, the Pomeranian Dukes tomb, the Kos family tomb, bishop’s crypt, antique chandeliers, canopies, and many other antiquities, including a feretory of great cultural value, showing Our Lady of Oliwa with an Infant Jesus.