sentences:  In 1623 the local landowner, Johan Ulrich von Schwerin, in order to marry a Catholic court lady Barbara Konarska from Vilnius, agreed to himself become Catholic.After the marriage he lived in Lithuania and Poland until 1632, when he returned to Alsunga after his father's death.In 1634 Johan Ulrich invited Jesuits to establish a mission in Alsunga to help him transfer all his peasants to Catholic faith.