Father Wyszynski Pilgrimage

ple about Fr. Stanislaus’s life, work, and extraordinary signs of holiness. He appealed to the Marians and their powerful friends to search intensively for people who used to know the Founder and urged them to raise funds for his beatification. He also insisted on taking steps towards safeguard- ing the wooden Church of Our Lord’s Cenacle in Góra Kalwaria—the site of Fr. Stanislaus’s tomb. He fre- quently exhorted that Fr. Founder’s writings and mem- orabilia needed collecting. He encouraged the Marians in Poland to raise funds to defer the cost of the beatifi- cation process. He personally studied the laws regulat- ing beatification procedures. With help from a lawyer he composed a highly detailed instruction on conduct- ing the process on the diocesan level. He petitioned the Ordinary of Poznań for his support in the Marian Founder’s beatification process, since Fr. Papczyński had worked and died in his diocese. Father Casimir saw a strict correlation between the efforts made towards the Founder’s beatification and the growth of the Order: “God imparts His blessing unexpectedly to those who remember their ancestors and fathers. It is quite evident that after the exhumation and placement of the bones of our Father in a new cas- ket, which the Marians in Poland did upon my urging, the Lord God in turn provided me with a comfortable cell in Rome. As soon as I sent to Poland the instruc- tions for opening our Father’s process and confirmed our fathers’ readiness to do so—the Father Pastor 38 P ILGRIMAGE TO THE E ND OF THE E ARTH