Father Casimir Wyszynski

T he secret of greatness of many celebrated persons lies in their ability to learn from other great figures and follow their ex- ample. There is an ancient saying: Discite exemplomoniti or learn from the admonitions of the examplar. Father Casimir Wyszyński—the faithful son and follower of the Marian Founder, Saint Stanislaus Papczyński—took this idea to heart. He became the great venerator and promoter of Father Papczynski’s spirit, thus giving an example of love of the Founder tomany generations of Marians. The Venerable Servant of God, Father Casimir, surrounded the person of the Founder of the Marian Fathers, Saint Stanislaus Papczyński, with extraordinary love and energetically promoted devotion to him. Upon joining the Marian Order, Father Casimir proved to be a faithful son of the Founder and the guardian of his spiritual heritage. He tried to followmeticulously the instructions of the Rule of the Ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, upon which he had made his religious profession, and endeavored to imitate the Immaculate Virgin in the way she thought, spoke and acted. 233 In 1741, when Father Casimir became the superior of the Marian monastery in Góra Kalwaria, he renovated the church of Our Lord’s Cenacle in which the earthly remains of Father Stanislaus had been placed in 1701. In order to acquaint the Pol- ish public with the person and work of the Founder, during one of the community’s Chapters, Father Casimir proposed to have made an engraved likeness of the Founder for the purpose of his promotion. 234 As the postulator in Father Papczyński’s beatification process in Rome, Venerable Casimir made efforts to have the Founder’s portrait painted. Theworkwas supposed to be done gratuitously as homage to Father Papczyński, by a renowned painter Antonio 233 Stróż duchowego dziedzictwa marianów… , 21. 234 Z. Proczek, Sługa Niepokalanej. Ojciec Kazimierz Wyszyński marianin , Warszawa, 1987, 22.