Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 184 Father Caputi explained that Fr. Stanislaus had been provoked to these “harmful excesses” by a certain Jesuit, a Pole, who circulated flyers among the nobility, in which he claimed that the Piarists were not professed religious but lay priests, and that people should not give them alms, only some bread, to support them. 122 The conflict continued and both the Jesuit General Curia and the Piarist General Curia, continued to receive letters from Poland with ever new polemical writings. Then the negotiations began. On Feb- ruary 22, 1669, at a general congregation of the Piarist Fathers, a decision was made to write to the Provincial Superior in Poland and his subordinates and to instruct them to avoid any controversy in connection with the fact that the Jesuits were opening their school in Warsaw. 123 On the same day, Superior General, Fr. Cosmas Chiara, sent a decree to the Piarists in Poland instructing them to refrain from any actions against the Jesuits. 124 The negotiations lasted till the beginning of March 1669 and ended with two decrees issued si- multaneously by the General Superiors of both orders announcing their reconciliation. 125 Accepting the orders and decrees from Rome, Fr. Francis Haligowski stopped attacking the Jesuit College in War- saw, which also released Fr. Stanislaus from undertaking any further actions in this matter. Later, the Jesuits from Poland, gathered at their Provincial Chapter, informed Fr. Caputi that the decrees sent from Rome to Poland by the General Superiors, Fr. Oliva and Fr. Chiara, were being respected by both sides, that the Jesuits and the Piarists in Warsaw made peace, that they forgave one another every- thing and were living in peace. 126 Cleared of the Accusations Even though Fr. Papczynski supported the Rector of the Warsaw house in the conflict with the Jesuits, the conflict between him and Fr. Haligowski continued. Unable to find any other way out, Fr. Stanislaus turned to the Apostolic Nuncio Marescotti towards the end of June 1669, and asked for his assistance in solving the prob-