Lumen 2018

113 At the Piarist Fathers tinies and was then referred to as sub-deacon. 84 A scrutiny held in connection with a religious profession in Rzeszow 85 constitutes a similar kind of testimony. The only document which mentions the place where Stanislaus Papczynski received his Minor Orders and the Sub-diaconate (i.e., Warsaw) and the date of this event (i.e., 1656) is a register ( elenchus ) where, under the date of November 8, 1661, Fr. Wenceslaus Opa- towski mentions those Piarists who were associated with the house in Podoliniec in the years 1642-1661. In this register, Fr. Opatowski lists the most important dates connected with the lives of the afore- mentioned Piarists, which he was able to find in the house archives. 86 Since these archives did not contain full documentation, 87 the author [i.e., Opatowski] was unable to supply the name of the bishop who had ordained Papczynski or the exact date of the ordination. He only mentioned on the third page of this register that Stanislaus of Jesus Mary was invested in Podoliniec on July 2, 1654, that he made his religious profession in Warsaw before Fr. Alexander, and that he re- ceived Minor Orders and Sub-diaconate in Warsaw in 1656. 88 What was, then, the name of the bishop from whom Stanislaus Papczynski received Minor Orders and the Sub-diaconate? In the 17 th century, the Warsaw Archdiaconate belonged to the Diocese of Poznan, whose Ordinary, in the years 1651-1663, was Bishop Albert Tholibowski. 89 In June of 1656, he found himself, together with King John Casimir, at the Polish-Lithuanian military camp inside the city walls of Warsaw besieged by the Swedes at that time. 90 We do not know whether Bishop Tholibowski remained in Warsaw till the end of July, after the Swedes had capitulated. But it is certain that the Apostolic Nuncio, Peter Vidoni (1652-1660), 91 who belonged to King John Casimir’s entourage, 92 was in Warsaw until July 29, 1656. Stanislaus Papczynski must have received the Minor Orders and the Sub-diaconate from one of these two bishops. This fact was most likely recorded in an appropriate book at the Warsaw Archdia- conate, but the book did not survive to the present times. It was probably kept in the archives of the Warsaw Diocese, which were de-