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dissertation required for the degree of a docent. He also followed my progress in the writing of this biography and encouraged me to persevere in my effort. May the Most Holy Immaculate Virgin bestow her maternal bless- ing upon them all. Nos cum Prole Pia Benedicat Virgo Maria! In the Year of the Great Jubilee of the Incarnation, On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, December 8, 2000 The Author NOTES 1. F. Koneczny, Tadeusz Kosciuszko. Na setna rocznice zgonu Naczelnika, Poznan, 1917, pp. 7-8. 2. Decree of the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, June 13, 1992. 3. Jan Pawel II, Pielgrzymki do Ojczyzny 1979. 1983. 1987. 1991. 1995. 1997. 1999, Przemowienia, homilie , Znak, Cracow, 1999, 1175. 4. M. Tarnawska, O. Stanislaw Papczynski na tle swoich czasow, London, 1962, p. 1. 5. “... Hic enim [Rector Vilnensis Scholarum Piarum] magnam opinionem de sanctimonia Institutoris nostri Patris Stanislai a Jesu Maria Papczynski habendo, Vitam eius typis mandare promisit et ad hunc finem iussit nobis, ut Vitam Eius synoptice conscriberemus, is autem conaturus erat diligentiam facere de S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 28