Lumen 2018

Poland around the middle of October 1667. He did not have the information (which comes from Kraus) about Fr. Papczyn- ski’s stay in Cracow during the provincial chapter in 1667. 77. Father Charles Pessau was the Superior of the German Province from the year 1662 till March 20, 1668. He governed that province till the end of April 1668 when a letter came from Rome announcing the election of a new Provincial Superior, Fr. Paul of St. Philip Neri Eder. The permission given to Fr. Pa- pczynski was one of Fr. Pessau’s last official acts as Provincial Su- perior. In 1671, he was elected Provincial Superior of the German Province again. Picanyol. Br. Consp., p. 146; GAP, Reg. Gen. 10, f. 24v; Kraus 7, Positio 302. 78. This was most likely his textbook of rhetoric. It seems that his German superiors wanted to employ him as an instructor of rhet- oric. 79. Positio 104, 303 note 118; Kraus 4, Positio 302. 80. “Nisi enim Deus ipse disposuisset, ut Pater Provincialis Germa- niae Carolus a Sancta Maria mihi facultatem daret abeundi, ego in Polonia nunquam comparuissem, prout insultando aliqui dixere in absentia mea. Sed non est potentia, non est consilium contra Dominum.” Apologia § 6, Scripta 42. 81. “At inquietus Stanislaus noster interea etiam in Poloniam venit, et Cracoviam appulsus patrem provincialem tunc existentem Podolinii brevibus de adventu suo certiorem fecit; se nimirum adesse, ac in negotiis certis proficisci Varsaviam, mansurum in quiete mensem unum, vel quamdiu placuerit Deo.” Kraus 7, Po- sitio 303. 82. “... specie colligendi spiritum itineraria defatigatione dispersum, discessit Lovitium.” Kraus 7, Positio 304; Kraus 6, Positio 298. 83. Kraus 7, Positio 304. 84. Kraus 7, Positio 305. 229 At the Crossroads