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formed about this issue, for he had been transferred to Warsaw at the beginning of 1661. Father Stanislaus’s protest before the Rector was to no avail. It only made the Rector angry. When Papczynski went to Fr. Haligowski’s cell with the admonishment, he was forcibly removed from the room. But, when he turned to the Superior General with this matter, Fr. General issued an order forbidding young lay people to live at Piarist monasteries. He most likely meant the monasteries in Poland. 105 During his canonical visitation of the house in Podolin- iec on September 19, 1669, Provincial Superior Opatowski, too, for- bade the Piarists to receive strangers, regardless of the reason, without the Superior General’s permission. 106 This was undoubtedly a result of Fr. Stanislaus’s struggle for religious observance in the life of his community. Yet another occasion when the conflict between Fr. Papczynski and Rector Haligowski manifested itself was the election of Michael Korybut Wisniowiecki as the King of Poland on June 19, 1669. The Rector of the Warsaw house was visibly irritated when Fr. Papczynski, upon receiving news of the election, rang a bell as a sign for all the Piarists to sing the hymn Te Deum laudamus 107 , without first con- sulting with Haligowski. In spite of this, he still ordered Fr. Stanislaus to write a panegyric in the king’s honor, hoping to obtain the king’s favor for the Piarists in this manner. At that time, Papczynski was the only Piarist at the Warsaw house who was up to such a task. He set about it with great enthusiasm and soon the panegyric was ready for publication. But Rector Haligowski did not want it to be published under Papczynski’s name. Papczynski accepted his superior’s decision and the panegyric was published anonymously. Five days after the election, it was given to King Michael on behalf of the Piarist College in Warsaw as their gift and homage to the king. 108 Papczynski thought that Rector Haligowski violated the Piarist constitutions when he ordered that the panegyric be published anonymously. At that time, the Piarist constitutions required that 181 At the Crossroads