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as one of the two gravely ill people who had been healed through Fr. Papczynski’s intercession. The style of Teixeira’s translation is some- what grandiloquent, but, nonetheless, very original and beautiful. It is not a literal translation because the translator supplemented it with information from additional sources, which, at Fr. Wyszynski’s re- quest, had been sent to him from Poland. Although Teixeira loved Fr. Papczynski very much, it does not seem that his work would serve as a source for preparing a biography of the Founder of the Marians because, as he translated Fr. Wyszynski’s text, he would shorten some fragments and add information drawn from other sources. He often supplied it with his own comments, opinions, and explanations and did so with some exaggeration. When the original text was too la- conic, he would enrich it with conjectural details which he presented as historical facts. Sometimes he would omit large fragments of the original text. Such changes, albeit seemingly pertinent and justifiable, often destroyed the chronological order of the events that were being described in the biography. The lack of consistency in the content of Teixeira’s version of Fr. Papczynski’s biography was sometimes the result of an erroneous interpretation of the original text. Teixeira would introduce changes in order to avoid potential scandal or am- biguity of the presented situations. 6 One of the most important sources of information is the record of the testimonies given by the witnesses in Fr. Stanislaus Papczyn- ski’s beatification process in Poznan which was concluded on Octo- ber 8, 1769. The record can be found in the manuscript copy entitled Copia Publica Transumpti Processus Ordinaria [1767-1769] Auctoritate in Curia Posnaniensi constructi super fama sanctitatis vitae, virtutum et miraculorum Servi Dei Stanislai Papczynski Cleri- corumMarianorum Institutoris, prepared in 1953. The process was properly conducted and its canonical validity was confirmed in 1990. At first, the witnesses in the process were asked special questions in order to determine their moral authority and competence in the area of the subject under investigation (it was the so-called interrogato- rium ). Afterwards, they answered questions posed according to a certain key, i.e., according to the articles prepared by the Postulator S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 20