Lumen 2018

Jesus Christ, the Most Holy Virgin, and other saints, the fatigue of this entire journey, the hardships, discomforts, burdens, thoughts, prayers, words, conversations, deeds and works, calamities (and my death itself, should it come), [in gratitude] for all the benefits that I have received, [in reparation] for my sins, [as a prayer] that calamities be turned away frommy homeland, for those who persecute me and my institute, for my benefactors, especially those still living, for my friends and enemies. It is my only desire that God be glorified by my journey undertaken out of obedience just as He was glorified by the journeys of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph, by the obedience of all His creatures, by the work, fatigue, teaching, persecution, and the Pas- sion of my Lord Jesus Christ, by the sorrow and pain of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, by the obedience of His angels and servants.” 52 We do not know when exactly Fr. Papczynski left for Rome. Kraus writes that, having set out from Warsaw, Papczynski re- mained in Cracow during the time of the provincial chapter (No- vember 7-12, 1667). 53 Therefore, he probably left Warsaw towards the end of October and then set out from Cracow in the middle of November 1667. While he was in Cracow, Fr. Stanislaus probably stayed at the Pi- arist house at Kazimierz, which was not yet a part of Cracow at that time but, rather, a separate town. The Piarists established their house there in 1664 thanks to the generosity of Canon John Markiewicz of Cracow, professor of Law at the Cracow Academy, who had be- queathed them with a tenement house called “kamienica Sipi- orowska” near the parish Church of St. Jacob and the Skawinska Gate. The church does not exist today and the street is called Skaw- inska. The benefactor of the Piarists had to hide his identity under a different name, so that he would not risk the displeasure of his col- leagues from the university concerning his involvement in moving the Piarists to Cracow. The Piarists did not have their own church at Kazimierz. There was only a hospice there. They did not have their own house of studies, either, but participated in lectures in theology offered by the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Pauline Fathers. S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 172