Lumen 2018

195 At the Crossroads Even though Fr. Stanislaus was moved outside the borders of the territory under the jurisdiction of the Ordinary of Cracow, Provincial Opatowski did not completely ignore the person of Bishop Trze- bicki. In January of 1670, he wrote to him a letter of explanation which was delivered by his representatives, Fr. Francis Haligowski and Fr. Joachim Goralevic. 164 The Provincial Superior’s deputies in- formed the shepherd of the diocese about the entire incident, and Fr. Haligowski later wrote a letter to the Provincial Superior to give an account of the mission that he had been entrusted with. 165 All these efforts did not convince Bishop Trzebicki, and he con- tinued to demand that Fr. Stanislaus be sent back to Cracow. When his new demands remained without a response, 166 the bishop turned to the Superior General of the Piarist Fathers. The latter refused to meet the bishop’s demand in a letter full of accusations and imputa- tions directed at Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski. 167 Having traveled over 240 kilometers in a cart guarded by two sol- diers, 168 Fr. Papczynski arrived in Prievidza on January 28, 1670, and was thrown into prison again. 169 At that time, Fr. Paul of the Birth of the Most Holy Virgin Frankovic, a Croatian fromHungary, eight years older than Fr. Stanislaus, was Rector of the monastery. 170 It seems that both confreres, Frankovic and Papczynski, had not had an opportunity to get to know each other well before, which explains the fact that Fr. Frankovic was not involved in Fr. Papczynski’s strug- gle for religious observance. Anyway, after Fr. Papczynski’s arrival in Prievidza, Fr. Haligowski wrote a letter to Fr. Frankovic, which in- cluded many false accusations directed at Fr. Stanislaus, asking the Rector in Prievidza not to allow Fr. Papczynski to take solemn vows even if he should ask for permission to take them. 171 It does not seem possible, however, that Fr. Papczynski, during his lengthy stay in the monastery prison, considered the possibility of remaining at the Piarists and taking the solemn vows. We only know that he was very ill at that time and that he experienced a cer- tain interior crisis … which could be presumed from the fact that, in