Lest You Remain

1981-1982, a process de non cultu was conducted in Warsaw. The decree super validitate Processus (regarding the validity of the diocesan process) was promul- gated in 1990. Further evaluations of Positio super Virtutibus were also conducted. Then, on January 22, 1991, during an Ordinary Session of the Congregation, chaired by Anthony Petti, General Promoter of the Faith, the theological consult- ants stated that the Servant of God practiced virtues to a heroic degree. On March 17, 1992, after having listened to the report delivered by Paulino Limongi, Titular Archbishop of Nice in Hemimont, the Cardinals and Bishops gathered at an Ordinary Session stated that the Servant of God Stanislaus of Jesus Mary Papczy<ski practiced the theological virtues, the cardinal virtues, and other virtues associated with these, to a heroic degree. After the results of the research conducted by the Cardinal Prefect signed below had been presented to Pope John Paul II, the Holy Father gladly accepted the decision of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints and ordered that the decree on the Servant of God’s heroic virtues be prepared. On June 13, 1992, the Holy Father invited the Cardinal Prefect, the relators of the cause, the Secretary of the Congregation, and other people who are usually summoned in such circumstances and, in the presence of all gathered with regard to the cause and its result, solemnly announced that: It is considered to be a certain thing that the Servant of God Stanislaus of Jesus Mary Papczy<ski practiced the theological virtues of faith, hope, and chari- ty, the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude,and other virtues associated with these, to a heroic degree. The Pope ordered that this decree be made public and kept in the acts of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. Given in Rome, on June 13, in the year of Our Lord 1992 Angelus Cardinal Felici, Prefect L.-S. Edward Nowak, Titular Archbishop of Lunen, Secretary Decree on Heroic Virtues 99