Lumen 2018

cribed these healings to St. Raphael the Archangel. Therefore, people, grateful for the graces that they had received, would bring many silver objects as votive offerings to be placed on the altar of St. Raphael at the Cenacle. Some of the miracles were quite spectacular, and it was impossible to hide them. The proprietress of the estate of Cedrowice, which bordered Nowa Jerozolima, ill-disposed towards the Marians, forbade them to collect dry twigs from her forest, the twigs that they would have used as fuel at their monastery, even though other poor people could do it without any problem. Soon, her daughter, whose last name was Raciborska, fell gravely ill. The desperate mother went to the Do- minican Fathers to ask them to pray for her child’s life. Despite their prayers, the girl got steadily worse. The Dominicans advised her to go to “that miracle-worker, Stanislaus, the Marian.” When the wor- ried mother entered the Cenacle, Fr. Stanislaus told her: “I know why you are here. Go home; your daughter is dead.” Nevertheless, he told the woeful mother to have her daughter’s body brought to the Cenacle. On the following day, the daughter’s body was brought to the Cenacle and, at Fr. Stanislaus’s order, laid on the table which commemorated the Last Supper. Then Fr. Papczynski told the mother to go to confession while he himself began to offer Mass at the altar of St. Raphael the Archangel. When he was reciting Gloria in excelsis Deo , the girl suddenly came to life, raised herself a little, and held out her arms towards the altar. When after the Mass, the overjoyed mother fell at Fr. Stanislaus’s feet in gratitude, he sent her to the altar of St. Raphael the Archangel. An account of this event was given by Adalbert Magnuszewski, a witness in the Information Process, who had heard about it from an Infantry General of the Kingdom of Poland by the name Cichocki. Cichocki, in turn, quoted a testimony given by a trustworthy lady residing at Gora by the name Belczyna, who was Fr. Papczynski’s contemporary. 212 According to Fr. Wyszynski’s account, Fr. Papczynski also resuscitated the son of a certain widow 213 and one other child. 214 Perhaps these three cases of resuscitation, which the witnesses talked about, refer to only one and the same event. 311 Foundation of a New Religious Order