Father Casimir Wyszynski

162 J ANUSZ K UMALA , MIC, P H D work. We find all of these manifestations in the life of the Vener- able Servant of God Casimir. He was a man who found, loved and persevered in theMarianway to God according to the charismof the Marian Order’s religious life. “If his life, directed towards intimate union with God, were to be summed up in a few words, it would be possible to say that Father Casimir was aman of Godwhose way of life prompted his fellow Marians to live the evangelical virtues, and who himself gave heroic witness to living religious life and the apostolate. He was the “apostle of the Immaculate” and through his preaching he contributed to the spreading of devotion to her and won the conversion of many souls. Further, the person of Father Casimir can be offered as amodel for themodernworld because he shows us how to be a fraternal guide to others in the Church and how to honor the Immaculate Virgin in the context of a contemporary society heavily marked by sin.” 232 232 Congregatio de Causis Sanctorum, Casimiri a S. Ioseph Wyszyński. Relatio et vota congressus peculiaris super virtutibus , Roma 1989, 18.