Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 138 He temporarily fulfilled the duties of the Rector some time later, in 1667, when Fr. Rector James Wezyrka became gravely ill and Fr. Stanislaus substituted for him in administering the Warsaw house. 247 The register of the Piarists of the Warsaw house from 1665 states that during the academic year of 1664/65 Stanislaus Papczynski, a preacher and instructor of rhetoric, was also the Prefect of the col- lege 248 and was often referred to as educator. 249 He had held this of- fice probably from September 1663. 250 The Vice-Postulator’s Letters It was already in 1650, i.e., two years after the death of the founder of the Piarist Fathers, that his beatification process began. The Information Process ended in 1653. It was resumed in 1659 and took a new turn in 1662 when Fr. Vincent Berro was nominated Postulator. In 1664, he received many letters requesting the beatifi- cation of Joseph Calasantius, among them — a letter from Marie Louise, Queen of Poland. From that moment on, things began to move ever more quickly and the matter really gathered momentum when Fr. G. Caputi was nominated Postulator on October 9, 1665. 251 Soon after the nomination, he wrote to Fr. Opatowski, the Polish Provincial Superior (1665-1671). In his letter he reminded Fr. Opatowski that a new session of the Polish Diet [Seym] was ap- proaching, therefore, all necessary steps should be taken to obtain a letter from this national assembly supporting the beatification cause of Joseph Calasantius. At the Provincial Superior’s request, Prince George Lubomirski agreed to promote this cause before the King, the Primate of Poland, and the Hetman of the Polish army, but it was up to the Piarists themselves to promote it among the dignitaries of the Kingdom of Poland. 252 Provincial Opatowski entrusted Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski with this mission. Highly esteemed for his eru- dition and virtue by both the Church and the lay personages, Fr. Stanislaus obtained a promise from them that they would support the beatification cause before the General Diet. 253 The promise was