Lumen 2018

263 of his first religious house. God’s help arrived in the person of Bishop Stanislaus Jacek Swiecicki,64 Archdeacon and Vicar for Warsaw, a “prominent, pious, and educated man,” who, while visiting his arch- diaconate, received an order from the Bishop of Poznan, to visit the hermitage at the Korabiew Forest, too, because some alarming news about it had reached the Ordinary. The lifestyle of the hermits was too unrestrained, and the Visitator was to decide whether certain obligations should be imposed on the hermits or whether the her- mitage should be laid under an interdict since the Holy See did not tolerate religious communities which did not have its approbation. Fr. Papczynski himself made efforts to bring about this visitation, and Bishop Swiecicki’s arrival was an answer to his expectations. 65 The Visitator arrived at the hermitage on October 24, 1673, after he had concluded the visitation of the parish church in Jeruzal. Kra- jewski was away when the Visitator arrived, which made the bishop furious. He was just about to remove him and his companions from the hermitage, but allowed them to stay at Fr. Stanislaus’s request. The bishop also left them his statutes regarding the re-organization of their life as hermits in the spirit of penance. In his visitation decree, Bishop Swiecicki approved Fr. Stanislaus’s institute, Krajewski’s donation of land, and his relinquishment of the privilege, which he had received from the king. He allowed the chapel to be moved, so that Krajewski began to relocate it from the original damp location to a drier place, situated on higher ground. He also approved its enlargement and allowed religious services to be held there. He ordered that, apart from the the Rule of Life , adherence to which they promised under oath, they should also follow the regu- lations which he left in his visitation decree. He imposed a duty on the Korabiew hermits to observe a fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. On those days, they were to consume only vegetables and water. On other days, they were allowed to add a spe- cial drink called cerevisia . 66 He absolutely forbade them to drink spir- its, mead, wine, and other alcoholic beverages. Foundation of a New Religious Order