Career
After being a missionary in several places, Minsk (Belarus), Nesviz (Poland) and Slutsk (Belarus), Kareu arrived in 1768 in Polatsk where he studied Architecture under the guidance of Gabriel Lenkiewicz, along with teaching Philosophy and Mathematics in the High School (1769–72). Being close to Stanislaus Czerniewicz and Lenkiewicz he helped them in their efforts to keep the Society of Jesus going in Russia. He was made the Rector of the High School of Orsa in 1782 and took part in the Regional Congregation of 1782 and 1785 that elected successively Cerniewicz and Lenkiewicz, Temporary Vicar in Russia. After 1785 Kareu was made Rector of the most prestigious Jesuit High School in Russia, Polatsk. In this period, he funded the purchase of a printing press from which, school manuals, philosophical and theological treatises and devotional books were produced.
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