Lumen 2018

citizens. This was his primary consideration when he was choosing examples for his textbook. He believed that his students should not simply be good orators, they should also live exemplary lives. 153 Stanislaus Papczynski’s textbook of rhetoric turned out to be very timely and much needed. It had four editions within less than nine years. The first edition, as has been mentioned before, was published in Warsaw in 1663, 154 the second — also in Warsaw in 1664, 155 the third one — in Warsaw in 1665, 156 and the fourth one — in Cracow in 1669/1670. 157 Even a hundred years later, Stanislaus Papczynski’s textbook of rhetoric would be recalled and referred to with great esteem. It was stated in the Information Process that this textbook was held in high repute, constantly used not only by students, but also by the “most celebrated men,” by the senators of the Kingdom of Poland and by the deputies to the Diet. 158 The fame of Papczynski’s textbook of rhetoric reached outside the borders of Poland. Fr. Charles of St. Anthony, Pope Alexander VII’s nephew, honored the work of the Polish scholar with a special epigram written in beautiful Latin and included in the collection of the author’s works entitled Musae Anconitanae . 159 One hundred and fifty years later, Fr. Bielski, a Piarist, praised Fr. Stanislaus for his achievements in the field of education. 160 The witnesses in the Information Process maintained that Papczynski’s students remem- bered him with gratitude as a good teacher and a saintly religious. 161 One of them, Francis Grzybowski, published Stanislaus Papczynski’s sermon entitled Doctor Angelicus and included the following words of praise in the introduction: cuius ego in Eloquentia Discipulumme esse profiteor et glorior (I confess with pride that I was his student of rhetoric). 162 It is worth mentioning that Stanislaus Papczynski was particularly appreciated as a teacher by the aforementioned sons of Prince Lubomirski — Jerome, who was an abbot in Tyniec, and Alexander, who was a commander of the city of Pereslavl. It was to them that 123 At the Piarist Fathers