12 I delight to do your will, my God; your law is in my inner being!” When I sing of your righteousness in a great assembly, See, I do not restrain my lips; as you, LORD, know. Sources: Vita Fundatoris 16-17 Thus, Stanislaus together with a certain fellow-villager of his and the aforementioned relative arrived safely during the pouring rain in the city of Lvov, almost a hundred miles distant from their hometown. Lvov was considered the host to outstanding scientists and famous as a peculiar friend of mercy. However, the omnipotent and foreseeing God decided to perfect Stanislaus and submit him to trial on all his ways, He resolved to test His chosen one like gold is tested by fire. He allowed for the prefect to refuse accepting the boys in his school because they had no recommendations and also because – despite their great enthusiasm for learning – their level of preparedness was insufficient. And thus, having left their hometown and experienced many troubles during the journey, they failed to achieve their goal of dedicating themselves to further learning. Without acquaintances in the city, they wandered here and there and exhausted the money received from their parents. Stanislaus’s relative – a cousin – stayed only briefly in Lvov, because a schoolmaster from a nearby town accepted him as a children’s tutor, while Stanislaus remained at a burgher’s also to teach boys. As a result, although he was not admitted to college due to insufficient knowledge, by foresight and the order of the most compassionate God, he was employed by two townspeople of Lvov to teach their two sons to read. One of the men supplied sufficient sustenance, and the other – room with a comfortable bed. I shall now speak of his cross, which I mentioned a little earlier. In the meantime, as Stanislaus, still a boy himself, took great care of the
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