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Br. Francis of St. Anthony Kuczewski on business to Czersk, two kilometers away fromNowa Jerozolima. The brother did not return at the appointed hour because he had taken it upon himself to go begging. He did not have his superior’s permission, but thought that he ought to take the opportunity to collect alms from some impor- tant people who were traveling from Nowa Jerozolima to Warsaw. When he returned home, he tried to explain why he was late and gave the money that he had collected to Fr. Stanislaus. But the father immediately threw it into the pond by the monastery. At that mo- ment, just at that place where the money had fallen, the water began to boil as if there were a fire beneath it. Father Stanislaus said to the stunned brother: “Just as that water appears to be boiling, so will your soul burn in Purgatory.” In this manner, he wanted to teach the confrere that a subordinate must not act out of his own will with- out his superior’s permission. 223 Apart from disobedience, Fr. Stanislaus also fought lying. He ad- monished those who were “infected” with this vice: “May each one of you live with God and the truth.” 224 Father Papczynski also visited the Piarists in Gora. He preached ascetic conferences to them, the fruit of which is his extensive work entitled Inspectio cordis (A Look into the Heart). Thought to have been lost until quite recently, it was discovered in 1971 in the Archives of the Religious Seminary in Lublin. We do not know the exact date of its origin. Father Papczynski wrote it most likely some time between 1677 and 1682. It is a manuscript measuring 18.5 cm x 14.5 cm, numbering 185 pages. 225 It belonged to Fr. Ignatius of St. Francis Krzyskiewicz, 226 who personally gave it to Fr. Papczynski during his visit to the Marian monastery in Gora around June 24, 1685, so that revisions and changes could be made. 227 Inspectio contains meditations for Sundays (part I), for solemn feasts (parts II-III), for days of recollection (part IV), and for partic- ular days of the week (part V). Each meditation, divided into a few points, is a kind of commentary on a selected verse of the Gospel S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 314