Abbot Augustyn Kordecki (born Klemens Kordecki Ślepowron coat of arms; November 16, 1603 – March 20, 1673) was a prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery, Poland. He was curate and provincial of the monastery. In 1655 during the Deluge he led the defence of the monastery against the Swedish troops. Life Klemens Kordecki came from the Gniezno diocese. He was born to a bourgeois, large family of Marcin and Dorota (he had an older sister Katarzyna and a younger brother Tomasz). His father in the years 1615-1616 was the mayor. On November 16, 1603, he was baptized in the parish church of St. Catherine in Iwanowice, and the godparents were Maciej, son of the mayor, and Elżbieta Olbińska. At ul. Garbarska 14, in Iwanowice, there is an old wooden hut from the 18th century, which according to tradition is considered to be his birthplace. Young Clement began his education in 1615 at the local parish school, which he graduated with a very good result, so his parents decided to educate him further. He was a pupil of the Junior High School of St. Mary Magdalene. In the years 1624–1628 he studied philosophy at the Jesuit college in Kalisz, and in 1628–1633 theology at the Jesuit college in Poznań. The choice of the monastic life path could have been influenced by the Pauline monks they met during their studies. He entered the Pauline Order at the age of 30 and on March 19, 1633, he took the habit from the Provincial Superior, Father Bartłomiej Bolesławski, OSPPE, taking the religious name Augustyn and undergoing the novitiate under the direction of Father Adam Preacher OSPPE at Jasna Góra. Due to the epidemic in the fall of 1633, he left Jasna Góra, staying in the monastery farm in Konopiska. The novice master, Father Adam Kaznowiusz OSPPE, fell victim to the epidemic then. Father Tomasz Bieniaszewicz OSPPE was appointed in his place. After completing the novitiate, he was sent toWieluń , where he taught rhetoric to young people. He made his profession on March 25, 1634, in Jasna Góra on the hands of the provincial, Father Bartłomiej Bolesławski, OSPPE. The next day after making his profession, he received the first tonsure and four minor orders, and on April 1, 1634, he was ordained subdeaconate. Two weeks later, on Holy Saturday, April 15, 1634, he was deaconated in Gniezno, and on June 10, 1634, he was