Father Wyszynski Pilgrimage

[General Superior] himself corroborated their inten- tions of doing their utmost in this process—a great blessing from God came upon us at once: the unex- pected invitation from the highly esteemed Portuguese monarch.” “It was much the same during my stay in Poland as an unworthy superior of our Congregation. When I first petitioned the Ordinary for the exhumation of our Venerable Father from the muddy grounds at the church of The Lord’s Cenacle and placing them in a new casket, the Lord God helped us raise this very church from nearly total ruin. And yet I had no earlier help before all this came to pass. When the Chapter decided to have his picture painted and printed and when we had it done, soon after two foundations in Lithuania were made available to us, which we took over even before the picture was completed. And to think how many problems from various sides we had encountered previously while trying to obtain the same foundations! Having the picture completed, everything started to go without a hitch (swimmingly). Even those people who previously impeded us from procuring the foundations later began to help” (April 10, 1752). Having obtained this ruling, auspicious for the Marians, Fr. Casimir wrote: “Now that the Lord deigned to let us rejoice in this matter, we must begin working assiduously on spreading our Order and the honor of the Blessed Mother by fostering the process of the Venerable Father Founder. For it is certain that 39 Renewal and Growth of the Marian Order