Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 126 The Talent of a Pedagogue It was only in Warsaw, where Papczynski was transferred in 1663, that he fully developed his talents as a pedagogue, preacher, and priest. His transfer took place in the middle of May because he still participated in the voting regarding Br. Simon of St. Francis’s ad- mission to the religious profession (which took place on June 3, 1663 176 ) and the date of the voting could not be very far from the date of the profession. But it was already on May 16, 1663 that his name was listed in the register of the members of the Warsaw house as a confessor, preacher, and teacher to the confreres. 177 Two sub- deacons from the Warsaw house were his students at that time. He fulfilled the duties of their teacher until the beginning of the aca- demic year 1663/64 when he began to teach rhetoric at the Warsaw college. 178 As he was moving to Warsaw, Papczynski hoped that he would be able to advance the matter of publishing his textbook of rhetoric, that he would be able to obtain the approval of his superiors and of the Episcopal Curia necessary to publish the book, and that he would find a sponsor who would agree to finance this enterprise. 179 But the true reason for his return to Warsaw was much more serious. The Piarist college in Warsaw, destroyed during the war and restored al- ready in the spring of 1663, desperately needed outstanding teachers, for it was in the capital city that the elite of Polish society resided. 180 The Piarists intended to introduce courses in rhetoric 181 in the aca- demic year 1663/64, and it was for this reason that Stanislaus Pa- pczynski was transferred from Rzeszow. He was to conduct lectures as the first teacher of rhetoric at the Warsaw college. 182 Papczynski’s work as a teacher in Warsaw was later remembered by Francis Grzybowski, who wrote on March 7, 1664, that he was Fr. Stanislaus’s student. 183 This fact is also confirmed by other doc- uments. In one of them, dated October 1, 1667, we can read that Papczynski was a teacher of rhetoric in Warsaw for four years. 184 In the fall of 1667, Papczynski went to Rome and returned to Warsaw