Lumen 2018

251 Foundation of a New Religious Order ticle of the faith even though quarrels about it still continued in the West. In the 16 th and the 17 th century, the Jagiellonian Academy de- fended the truth about the Immaculate Conception. Churches and altars under this title were being built, knights had the image of Mary Immaculate impressed on their armor, and confraternities which sang Godzinki o Niepokalanym Poczeciu [Office of the Immaculate Con- ception] were being established. At the synod in Piotrkow in 1511, Archbishop Laski, the Primate of Poland, ordered that the feast of the Immaculate Conception be celebrated in the entire Gniezno Province, and King Ladislaus IV established an order of the Immac- ulate Conception. 21 The truth about the Immaculate Conception was confirmed by the popes of the 17th century — Pope Paul V in 1617, Pope Gregory XV in 1622, and especially by Pope Alexander VII in his constitution Sollicitudo omnium Ecclesiarum in 1661. Nonetheless, controversies and disputes between “macculists” and “immaculists” still continued. 22 The Founder of the Marians be- longed to the latter group. His views on the subject were expressed in a poem published in 1663 in Prodromus Reginae Artium , which offered an interesting attempt at justifying the privilege of the Im- maculate Conception ex consequentibus, i.e., from the absence of the consequences of Original Sin in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary; the consequences so evident in the lives of all other people (with the exception of Jesus), thereby proving that she was never stained by it, and so was, indeed, Immaculately Conceived. 23 His other poem Triumphus was dedicated to the same mystery and was included in a book by Dominic Korwin Kochanowski, OFM, entitled Novus asserendae Immaculatae Conceptionis Deiparae Virginis modus . The book was published in 1669 and, in Papczyn- ski’s opinion, offered a new convincing proof of Mary’s Immaculate Conception. The book proclaimed the triumph of the Virgin Con- ceived without stain, who crushes the head of the hellish serpent with her foot. It may have poisoned the first parents with its venom, but it did not manage to stain the Great Mother of God with its breath. All people born from Adam are born as the sons of wrath, but the guilt which stained the entire humankind is far from the Virgin of