Lumen 2018

201 At the Crossroads After the two seminarians, Casimir Paszakowicz and Bernard Krupski, had been summoned to appear before the Visitator, they wrote a letter to him 197 informing him that Bishop Trzebicki forbade them to go to Podoliniec. Father Papczynski must have sent an iden- tical reply to the Visitator. Ultimately, none of these three men ful- filled Fr. Pessau’s order. They did not respond to the second summons, either. In this situation, the Visitator waited a few days be- yond the date which he had set and sent an announcement to all the houses of the province, informing them that he had placed a Church censure on the “insubordinates” and ordered them to let Fr. Stanis- laus, Br. Casimir, and Br. Bernard know about it. On August 28 th , he set out from Podoliniec to Cracow. He did not find the three men at the Piarist residence at Kazimierz because they had taken shelter in Bishop Trzebicki’s palace. 198 They were afraid that they might be abducted, put on trial, and incarcerated. On the same day or maybe a day after, Fr. Papczynski and one of the seminarians made a state- ment before an apostolic notary regarding their move from the Piarist house at Kazimierz to the bishop’s palace in Cracow. They explained that they were not motivated by a desire to leave their institute, but wanted to avoid reprisals dictated by malicious opinions and unfair assessments made by some of the superiors and other persons. 199 Father Papczynski and the two seminarians did not feel bound by the aforementioned censure because, as they claimed, the Visitator did not have the authority to impose this kind of penalty. They were convinced that by remaining under the jurisdiction of the Ordinary of Cracow, they were no longer subordinate to the Piarist religious superiors, therefore, these superiors did not have the right to impose any censures upon them. Evidently, Bishop Trzebicki shared this conviction because he took them in as his guests and allowed them to receive the sacraments. 200 When he arrived in Kazimierz, the Visitator made yet another at- tempt at summoning the three men before his court, but, again, to no avail. 201 He waited four more days and then, having lost all hope to get in touch with Fr. Stanislaus and his companions, he made his way back to Germany.