Lumen 2018

127 At the Piarist Fathers towards the end of May 1668. 185 We know that he was in Warsaw during the academic year 1668/69 and that this was the last year of his stay in the capital city. 186 It seems that he taught rhetoric dur- ing this last year, too. Even though there are no documents to con- firm this assumption, we can be affirmed in our conviction by a piece of information from 1671 regarding the number of years (i.e., 9 to 10) that Papczynski spent as a teacher of rhetoric. If the years 1668- 1669 were not included, he would have taught for eight and a half years at most. 187 The Talent of an Orator Immediately after he had arrived in Warsaw, in addition to his other duties, Papczynski also assumed the duties of a preacher. 188 His sermons delivered at the Piarist church, as well as at the churches of other religious congregations on occasions of great celebrations, were quite famous. Particularly memorable were the sermons in honor of St. Thomas, preached at the church of the Dominican Fa- thers, one of which (delivered on March 7, 1664) was published under the title Doctor Angelicus (The Angelic Doctor) in the same year and has survived to this day. 189 Father Stanislaus quickly became known as an excellent preacher. 190 According to their constitutions, the Piarists could not deliver sermons in churches other than their own during Advent and Lent, 191 but the silver-tongued preacher was released from this limitation. According to a tradition, which was recalled during the Infor- mation Process, Fr. Papczynski spoke from the pulpits of the vari- ous Warsaw churches in the presence of King John III Sobieski. 192 John Sobieski, who became King of Poland in 1674, might have listened to Papczynski’s sermons during the four-year period be- tween 1663 and 1667 because he often visited Warsaw at that time, first as the Great Standard-Bearer of the Kingdom of Poland, then