Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 118 Chmielnicki to march towards Cracow. At that time, Paul Sapieha and Stephen Czarniecki defeated Khovanski at Polonka on June 27, 1660 and turned against Dolgorukov. In Volhynia, Stanislaus Po- tocki and George Lubomirski defeated “Sheremet” at Cudnow. The Polish army numbered 20 thousand soldiers and the same number of Tartars, while the Muscovite army numbered 60 thousand choice soldiers. But they committed a serious error by allowing themselves to be surrounded, waiting in vain to be relieved by Chmielnicki, who had been defeated by Lubomirski at Slobodyszcze and forced to be- come a subject of the Polish king. The desperate and hungry Sheremetiev surrendered and was taken prisoner with his entire army. 113 These events are worth remembering, for Stanislaus Pa- pczynski later praised the bravery of the Polish heroes fallen in the battle of Cudnow. 114 C HRIST ’ S P RIESTHOOD Four years had passed since the time when Stanislaus Papczynski received the Sub-diaconate and he still was not ordained to the priesthood. Why was he not ordained deacon and priest for such a long time? The practice of delaying ordination to the priesthood was quite common in the Congregation of the Piarist Fathers. The purpose of this practice was to allow some of the more gifted alumni to complete their theological studies. 115 Undoubtedly, Stanislaus Papczynski was one such student as was Kraus, whose ordination was also delayed. 116 But one of Papczynski’s confreres from the first year of the novitiate, Adalbert Siewierkowicz, who was less talented, made his profession on September 10, 1656, and was ordained to the priesthood already on December 1658, during his stay in Podoliniec. 117 In Papczynski’s case, there was yet another reason, other than his studies of theology, why his ordination was delayed. At that time, he was also training to be an instructor as he taught rhetoric and prepared a textbook for a course in that subject. 118