Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 260 regarding the foundation of a “society” (that meeting took place in Cracow), and the priest had told him that it was God’s will that he should begin this work. 51 Following the advice that he was given, Fr. Papczynski invited Kra- jewski to Lubocza. There, on July 4, 1673, he accepted his act of oblation to the “Society of the Immaculate Conception” and his oath of perseverance and submission to the Rule. At that time, Kra- jewski was vested in the white habit and received a religious name — John of the Immaculate Conception. 52 In the act of oblation, Stanislaus Krajewski, son of Bartlomiej Kra- jewski and Regina Krasnopolska, 39 years of age at the time, citizen of the Diocese of Przemysl, offered to God the Almighty and to the Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, conceived without sin, his heart, his mind, his memory, his will, his feelings, his entire soul, his external and internal senses, his body, leaving for himself absolutely nothing, so that he might become the servant of the Omnipotent God and the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father Stanislaus’s first religious confrere used identical words to those that the Founder himself had used in his oblatio in 1670, in accordance with the formula that he had composed for the first Marians. 53 Father Papczynski informed the Apostolic Nuncio, Francisco Buonvisi, 54 about this act and obtained his permission to celebrate Holy Mass at the chapel built by Krajewski and considered to be a private chapel. He also obtained the diocesan bishop’s permission to make a retreat at the Korabiew hermitage. 55 The time to leave the hospitable home of the Karski family had come. After two years of living under the same roof, the hosts reluc- tantly said goodbye to their saintly chaplain and friend. Father Pa- pczynski left Lubocza and made his way towards the Korabiew Forest in a cart, on which he took some food and personal belong- ings. His trip fell on a Saturday before the nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, i.e., on September 30, 1673, the Feast of St. Jerome. 56