Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 198 moned the perpetrators of his incarceration (i.e., Provincial Superior Opatowski and Fr. Joseph Warzecha, President of the house at Kaz- imierz, who cooperated in the abduction) before the Diocesan Tri- bunal. They were both summoned to appear before a church court because they had wrongfully deprived Fr. Stanislaus of his freedom, who, as a professed member in simple vows was then no longer under the jurisdiction of the Piarist superiors since their order had become an order with solemn vows. Rather, he remained under the protection of his new church superior, i.e., the Ordinary of Cracow, to whom the Piarist residence at Cracow was also subordinate. After his release, Papczynski himself accused Provincial Superior Opa- towski of cruelty and recalled the torment that he had put him through during the abduction from Kazimierz and incarceration in Podoliniec. The trial took place during four sessions and lasted al- most five months, i.e., from the middle of January till the beginning of June 1670. At the last session, the bishop’s delegates decided to hand the en- tire matter over to the Holy See and to wait for the decision of the Sacred Congregation. 184 Later, the Ordinary of Cracow sent a request to the Holy See asking for a ruling in this matter. Father Papczynski, in turn, sent a memorial to the Superior General, Fr. Chiara, on June 7, 1670. The said memorial was addressed to the Sacred Congrega- tion of Cardinals and, according to the instructions given by Fr. An- gelo Morelli, was to serve as a basis to obtain a release from the Congregation of the Piarist Fathers granted by the Holy See. 185 The Bishop’s Testimony After the conclusion of the last session of the Diocesan Tribunal, Fr. Papczynski asked Bishop Nicholas Oborski to prepare testimony, which would be a summation of the entire trial. The bishop did prepare such testimony, and it constitutes an im- portant piece of evidence of Fr. Stanislaus’s innocence. The reverend author shared the conclusions that the tribunal reached after having