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[his work] to blossom at the place where God had prepared the soil for him. He also had friends who supported him and affirmed him in his conviction that Divine Providence was protecting what he had intended to obtain. One of Fr. Stanislaus’s most reliable friends was Fr. Francis Wilga, Superior of the Camaldolites at Gora Krolewska near Warsaw (today Bielany). 44 Father Stanislaus went to see Fr. Wilga and seek his advice in the fall of 1672. He had contacted him before, but this time the matter was of highest importance. 45 Apprised of the mounting difficulties, Fr. Wilga advised Fr. Papczynski to try and find a companion first and set up a religious house at an appropriate place. He suggested that, after such a place had been found, the efforts to obtain appro- bation of the Holy See 46 should begin. Father Papczynski received this advice with gratitude because the words of his great friend were to him like the dove returning to Noah’s ark to announce that the waters were subsiding. The First Marian Monastery Following Fr. Wilga’s advice, Fr. Papczynski turned his attention to a hermitage located in the Korabiew Forest, 47 about 70 kilometers away from Lubocza, where a certain war veteran, 39-year-old Stanis- laus Krajewski, a cleric with minor orders, had lived the life of a her- mit for the past twelve years. He had settled on a piece of land given to him by Luke Opalinski and received the title of ownership and a permission to build a hermitage from King Michael Korybut Wis- niowiecki in 1670. The document prepared at that time is of great importance to the Marians because it is the only document that pro- vides details of Krajewski’s (Fr. Stanislaus’s first companion) life, as well as information about the hermitage, which became the cradle of the new Congregation. 48 The document of the royal endowment of October 2, 1670, praises Stanislaus Krajewski for the numerous services rendered to S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 258