Father Wyszynski Pilgrimage

40 P ILGRIMAGE TO THE E ND OF THE E ARTH this victory also came to pass through his intercession. Here we did not have any patrons, only antagonists, very numerous and powerful at that. I commend myself to our saintly Father” (July 15, 1752). Father Casimir called upon his confreres in Poland to take the Founder’s beatification cause into their hearts: “We offend this great Servant of God and ven- erator of the Blessed Mother by not fostering his devo- tion. After all, he earned this honor with us as our Father and our Leader” (March 14, 1752). “It grieves me deeply that our Venerable Father’s process has not been opened yet. I fear very much that the remaining eye-witnesses will soon leave this world; this would do damage [to the process] as has already happened because of our predecessors’ negli- gence, who did not open the process although there were available a great many eye-witnesses to the sanc- tity of the Servant of God. In spite of all this, thanks to Divine Providence, which is mysterious and unfath- omable, the success of our Order has not been imped- ed” (July 19, 1752). Father Casimir’s wishes came to pass only 250 years later: on September 16, 2007, Fr. Stanislaus was proclaimed a Blessed. One of the goals of the Marian Order was to bring spiritual help to the souls suffering in purgatory. Father Casimir obtained special indulgences for the deceased