Father Casimir Wyszynski

Father Casimir procured a new coffin and habit, replacing the old ones. 245 For the second time the grave was opened around 1716 or 1721, during the canonical visitation of Adam Rostkowski, the Bishop of Łuck. Again, it was confirmed that the remains had not decayed. 246 Father Stanislaus’s remains deteriorated only in the course of the following several years, after the floodwaters inundated the monastery grounds and the church floor. The water stayed there for 15 years, which caused the falling rotten beams to break open the coffin, forcing Father Stanislaus’s remains into themud. After a while, only bones remained. Upon authorization from Rev. Anthony Grzegorzewski, a Warsaw official, Father Casmir Wyszyński, as the Superior General since 1737, exhumed the bones in 1739/1740. He took them out from the mud, washed them and placed them in a new coffin. 247 In 1750, Father Casimir was named the General Procurator of the Order, a position he carried out successfully in Rome for two years (1751-1753). He fervently dedicated himself to the prepa- ration of Father Founder’s beatification process. In his letters fromRome to the Superior General, Father CayetanWetycki, Ven- erable Casimir continually urged that efforts begin for elevating Father Stanislaus to the glory of altar, because he so deeply be- lieved it to be an important step in the efforts to obtain a dogmatic definition of the truth of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary. Therefore, with utmost zeal, he dedicated himself to preparing instructions needed for opening Father Papczyński’s beatification process, since Father Stanislaus had founded his religious Order under that very title. 245 [Mansueto Leporini OFM Ref.], Vita Fundatoris Congregationis Polonae Or- dinis Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatae Mariae Virginis , ca 1705, n. 90, in: Po- sitioP p , 650. 246 K. Wyszyński, Żywot Czcigodnego Sługi Bożego Ojca Stanisława od Jezusa Maryi Papczyńskiego , 131-132. 247 Same author, Diariusz czynności… , 272 . 169 Faithful Venerator of the Marian Founder