Father Wyszynski Pilgrimage

tion.” He was not attracted by any career as a layman since it often entailed injustice and humiliation of the lowly. Instead, he wanted to get more fully involved in doing God’s work, to which two of his older brothers were already committed: one was a Piarist, the other a member of the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Vincent de Paul. By going on pilgrimage, Francis wished to seek divine enlightenment as to his road of life; he discovered it in Rome. In Atonement for His Brother In the fall of 1723, Francis met Fr. Joachim Kozłowski, a Marian who had come to Rome on his Order’s business, which was connected indirectly with the Wyszyński family. Around 1716, Francis’s elder brother Joseph entered the Marian novitiate. Being used to the free reign of soldierly life, he couldn’t adjust to the reli- gious order’s regulations. Along with Fr. Matthew Krajewski, then the General Superior, “enraptured by a desire of procuring lay prelatures,” they laid blame on the Order before ecclesial and lay authorities, insist- ing on its disbandment and suggesting that the Marian priests be employed at abandoned parishes. Instructed by the Apostolic Nuncio, Bishop Adam Rostkowski conducted a visitation of the Marian mo- nasteries, and using the lack of papal approval of the 14 P ILGRIMAGE TO THE E ND OF THE E ARTH