Father Casimir Wyszynski

214 A PPENDIX Upon completion of the proper examination of the Servant of God’swritings, Pope Pius VI on January 15, 1780, by his authority, as was customary, signed a decree establishing a committee in charge of presenting thismatter before the Apostolic See. Conse- quently, the episcopal curias in Poznan (1781-83) and in Mi- randa-Bragança (1783) conducted apostolic processes in accordance with the legal regulations with regard to the virtues of the Servant of God. On November 25, 1788, the Congregation for the Saints issued a decree confirming the credibility of the above processes. However, as a result of events of a political and religious na- ture, both in Poland and in Portugal, a total silence befell the be- atification cause of the Servant of God. Virtually nothingwas done until on June 17, 1955, the cause was re-opened and dispatched to the Historical Section of the then Holy Congregation of Rites. After gathering and securing various documents about the life andwork of the Servant of God, an extensive Positio on his virtues was prepared in 1986. In October of the same year this Positio was positively evaluated by the experts in history appointed by the Congregation for the Saints. Accordingly, on March 21, 1989, the theologian consultants gathered in special session presided over by the General Pro- moter for the Faith, Father Antonio Petti, unanimously declared that the Servant of God practiced Christian virtue to an heroic de- gree. On November 7 th of the same year, His Eminence Andrzej Maria Cardinal Deskur, the President of the Pontifical Academy of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M., presented the cause to the cardinals and bishops gathered in their ordinary meeting. They acknowledged that the Servant of God Casimir of St. Joseph Wyszyński practiced the theological, cardinal and related virtues to an heroic degree. Eventually, the undersigned Cardinal Prefect presented the ac- count on these matters to the Holy Father, John Paul II. His Holi- ness, having accepted with satisfaction the opinion of the