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tional anthem, for it was at that time that Czarniecki “threw himself across the sea to save the homeland.” 98 In reality, the soldiers crossed the narrow strait separating the Island of Alsen from the Jutland Peninsula in boats, while their horses swam right next to them. 99 Let us now return to sub-deacon Papczynski. When the Polish army was defeated by the united forces of Brandenburg and Swe- den 100 after a three-day battle at the city walls of Warsaw (July 28- July 30), the newly ordained sub-deacon Papczynski, following the order of his superiors, left the capital city together with one or two confreres and, in the first days of August, made his way to Podoliniec via Rzeszow. 101 Other Piarists, who left Warsaw together with Fr. Novari, 102 Vicar-Provincial Superior, soon arrived at the new Piarist house in Rzeszow. 103 Towards the end of September, Stanislaus Pa- pczynski and two other Piarists were sent there, too. 104 Papczynski did not stay long in Rzeszow. Soon the city was threat- ened by Rakoczy’s army from Transylvania, which had already reached the outskirts of Lvov and was marching towards Cracow. 105 In the face of such a danger, Fr. Novari ordered Stanislaus Papczynski and other Piarists from Rzeszow to seek shelter in Spisz. 106 Thus, in the first days of March 1657, Stanislaus Papczynski found himself in Podoliniec again. 107 He was soon appointed instructor of rhetoric at the Piarist college there. He taught this course from 1658 108 to July 31, 1660, 109 after which he was transferred back to Rzeszow. 110 This was an important period in Stanislaus Papczynski’s life, for it was then that he received the Diaconate and was ordained to the priest- hood. But let us finish our account of what was happening in Poland during the period of time preceding Stanislaus Papczynski’s ordina- tion and how the famous Swedish “deluge,” which had a great in- fluence on his life, ended as well. The Peace Treaty of Oliwa After all the defeats which they suffered in Poland and in Den- mark, especially the one at Nyborg, the Swedes became fed up with S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 116