Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 236 et corda. Cuius tamen bonitati ego pro vestris charitatibus hu- millime flecto genua. Vos pariter pro me facite, ut saltemmutuo deprecantibus ignoscat, aut hic non alibi, quia iustus, castiget.” Apologia § 54, Scripta 73. 158. Kraus 9, Positio 318. 159. In the Marian Archives there is a letter “cum delatione injustae incarcerationis Venerabilis P. Stanislai in litteris Scholarum Pi- arum.” DeVen 18-vo, APS 5, f. 31r. 160. “vindicatus innocentem Patrem Stanislaum tamquam eum, qui ordinarii loci iurisdictioni subiecisset.” Epistolae etc., n. VIII, ProtBals 199. The said letter did not survive to our times. 161. Apologia § 20, Scripta 51: Testimonium II by Bishop Nicholas Oborski, July 17, 1670, n. Positio 180. 162. Picanyol, Brevis Conspectus , 253; Choynacki 35. 163. PEK, vol. XXIII-XXIV (1911), 1-2. Prievidza today is a town located in middle Slovakia, on the Nitra River (a tributary of the Vah River), with a population of about 36 thousand (1977). The Piarist monastery is a museum now and the Pi- arists themselves occupy only a few rooms. The church bears the name of the Holy Trinity. It has eight altars with large paintings dating back to the 18 th century. On the ceiling, there is a sumptuous polychromy — a view of heaven full of angels and saints. On the left, there is a painting of the Blessed Mother called Mater Bonorum Studiorum and of St. Joseph Calasantius with children. The Piarists have been in Prievidza for only a short time. Before their arrival, a Redemptorist priest had lived there for 15 years. The Piarists have four outposts in Slovakia. The tablet on the wall of the monastery reads that the monastery was established in 1666 and that, in the years 1672-1919, a Roman Catholic grammar school was located there. It was to this place that the Founder of the Marians was once brought as a prisoner.