Lumen 2018

307 Foundation of a New Religious Order of the crowd. He went on to deliver his sermon, pouring all his love and honor for Mary Immaculate, Assumed into Heaven, into the hearts of the faithful. 202 Father Papczynski extended his apostolic care not only onto the faithful who came to the Cenacle. He visited the neighboring parishes and helped their pastors to proclaim the word of God, teach catechism, hear confessions, and preside over various religious serv- ices. His pilgrimages to the Shrine of Our Lady of Lewiczyn merit special attention. An icon of the Blessed Mother, based on the image of Our Lady of the Snows at the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, had been venerated there since 1604. A trace of Fr. Pa- pczynski’s presence at this shrine can still be found in the Book of Miracles and Graces in Lewiczyn. The book contains two accounts of miraculous healing through the intercession of the Blessed Mother. The book reads: “The Venerable Rev. Stanislaus Papczynski, a hermit from the Ce- nacle at Gora, was ill for five days with a fever. Heavy pain spread to his entire head, then concentrated in one half of his head and, finally, in one of his eyes, becoming so intense that it almost pushed the eye out of its socket. All medicines were useless. The pain took away his sleep. Wishing to be in Lewiczyn on Sunday, he offered himself [to the Blessed Mother] on Thursday and fell asleep. While he was sleep- ing, the illness disappeared. “Once at dinner, the same Fr. Papczynski became so ill with a pain in his leg that as soon as he was helped to bed, he sent a message to Kalwaria that he would not be able to come to preach the sermon. However, Rev. Brodzinski said, ‘I will commend him to the Blessed Mother of Lewiczyn and he will get well.’ At that moment he be- came well and went to deliver the sermon.” 203 The Book of Miracles and Graces also contains an account of a healing obtained through Fr. Papczynski’s intercession: “A miller’s wife from Lewiczyn, so gravely ill that everyone lost hope that she would ever recover, quickly regained her health after