Lumen 2018

THE RESIDENTS OF KORABIEWICE PLACED THIS STONE UNDER HIS FAVORITE LINDEN TREE 1683-1933 The “magnificent, branchy linden tree, under which the monarch allegedly took rest before the Vienna campaign,” as Fr. Sydry wrote, 241 can no longer be found at Puszcza Marianska [The Marian Forest] for it was simply destroyed by time. Yet another account exists which refers to the relationship between Fr. Papczynski and King Sobieski. According to this account, Fr. Stanislaus accompanied King John III Sobieski during his Vienna campaign, just as he did during his campaign to Dzikie Pola. But this quite popular belief about Fr. Stanislaus’s participation in the battle of Vienna is based on the testimony of only one witness in the Information Process. The testimony was given in 1769 by Fr. Dionyaiua Kisielinski, 242 who based it on Prince John Cajetan Jablonowski’s account. Prince Jablonowski was the son of Hetman Stanislaus John Jablonowski (1634-1702), a participant of the Vi- enna campaign. 243 Young Prince Jablonowski learned from his father that Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski had preached sermons for four years in the presence of King John III Sobieski, 244 and it probably seemed quite natural to him that Fr. Papczynski would accompany the king to Vienna. But this account is erroneous because it is not corrobo- rated by information in any other historical documents. It is certain, however, as it has been mentioned earlier, that John III Sobieski commended himself to Fr. Papczynski’s prayers before he had set out for Vienna. These facts demonstrate that the members of the generation contemporary to Fr. Papczynski were convinced that there existed a close bond between him and the victor of Vienna. Let us also add that Sobieski’s subsequent campaigns following the victory of Vienna ended in defeat. His attempt at recapturing Kamieniec by a sudden attack and his campaigns into Moldavia (1686 and 1691), which was under Turkey’s influence at that time, S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 320