Father Casimir Wyszynski

Father Casimir saw a strict correlation between the efforts made towards the Founder’s beatification and the growth of the Order: “God imparts His blessing unexpectedly on those who re- member their ancestors and forefathers. It is quite evident that after the exhumation and placement of the bones of our Father in a new casket, which theMarians in Poland did uponmy urging, in turn the Lord God provided me with a comfortable cell in Rome. And as soon as I sent to Poland the instructions for open- ing our Father’s process and confirmed the readiness of theMar- ians to do so—the Father Pastor [Superior General] himself corroborated their intention of doing their utmost for this process—a great blessing from God came upon us at once: the unexpected invitation from the highly esteemed Portuguese monarch.” “It wasmuch the same duringmy stay in Poland as an unwor- thy Superior of our Congregation. When I first petitioned the Or- dinary for the exhumation of our Venerable Father from the muddy grounds at the church of The Lord’s Cenacle and for plac- ing them in a new casket, the Lord God helped us raise this very church from nearly total ruin. And yet I had previously no help before all this came to pass. When the Chapter decided to have his picture painted and printed and when we had it done, soon after two foundations in Lithuania were made available to us, which we took over even before the picture was completed. And to think howmany problems fromvarious sides we had encoun- tered previously while trying to obtain the same foundations! Having the picture completed, everything started to go without a hitch. Even those people who previously impeded us from procuring the foundations, later began to help” (April 10, 1752). Having obtained this ruling, auspicious for theMarians, Father Casimir wrote: “Now that the Lord deigned to let us rejoice in this matter, we must begin working assiduously on spreading our Order and the honor of the Blessed Mother by fostering the pro- cess of the Venerable Father Founder. For it is certain that this vic- tory 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). 45 The Servant of Mary Immaculate