Lumen 2018

on the right and on the left: MP Y express her title, i.e., MITIP EY, which means MOTHER OF GOD. After Rev. Seraphim Micha- lenko, MIC, and Brother Andrew Maczynski, MIC, of the Province in America received the icon from the artist, they took it to Rome where the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, blessed it on March 3, 1996, before it was taken to the Marian Forest. 101 In June of that year, the icon was solemnly placed in the restored church. The church was officially opened to the faithful in 1998. A new icon of the Blessed Mother was also commissioned for the restored Church of St. Michael the Archangel. The icon is a faithful copy (painted by John Piechura of Warsaw) of the old icon from the home of the Karski family and is covered up by a new painting (by Yolanda Czarska of Warsaw) of St. Michael the Archangel. The icon of Our Lady was solemnly blessed on July 22, 2000. During the same ceremony, three new statues located at the square in front of the church were blessed: a statue of Mary Immaculate (by artist Thomas Rogala) with an inscription: O MARY CONCEIVED WITHOUT SIN, PRAY FOR US, a statue of Fr. Stanislaus Pa- pczynski (by artist Witold Czepowik) with an inscription: FATHER STANISLAUS OF JESUS MARY PAPCZYNSKI, 1631–1701, FOUNDER OF THE CONGREGATION OF MARIAN FA- THERS, and a statue of John III Sobieski (by artist Edward Jelinski) with an inscription: JOHN III SOBIESKI, 1629–1696, KING OF POLAND. In July of 2000, the Chapel of the Souls in Purgatory was re- stored. The new polychromy inside was painted by two Russians, priests of the Eastern Rite and Marian postulants. On the main wall, there is an image of Our Lady of the Scapular, on the left — Fr. Pa- pczynski interceding for the souls in Purgatory. At the entrance, there are images of the holy angels: St. Michael on the right and St. Gabriel on the left. The ceremony of the consecration of the new church under the title of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 276