Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 322 dated May 22, 1681. In this letter, he expressed a conviction that the pope’s breve constituted indirect approbation of the Congregation. Being certain now that his decision to erect Fr. Papczynski’s institute in his diocese was right, he began to support the Marians with re- newed zeal, granted them further privileges, and expressed a wish that they would grow quickly and flourish both in number and in merit. 249 He would later watch over the Congregation and remove the ob- stacles threatening its development. Yet difficulties continued to arise, and they would often come from the very members of the Marian community. When a dispute between Fr. Stanislaus and his confreres at Nowa Jerozolima arose in 1685, Bishop Wierzbowski, at Fr. Pa- pczynski’s request, came to their aid and entrusted this matter into the hands of Nicholas Stanislaus Swiecicki, the Vicar for Warsaw, who, in turn, appointed commissioners to investigate the matter. The commissioners acquainted themselves with the situation and, on June 11, 1685, issued appropriate dispositions. This strengthened Fr. Papczynski’s authority as the Superior and confirmed the validity of the requirements that he had set in matters of religious obser- vance. But they also persuaded Fr. Papczynski to make one conces- sion and ordered him, according to Bishop Wierzbowski’s wish, to appoint Fr. Jacob of St. Thomas to be the Superior of the Cenacle for life and to give him permission to support his own lay brother, who had once worked at the Cenacle for several years. 250 It seems that Fr. Jacob did not remain the Superior of the monastery for a long time, because it was Fr. Papczynski who held this office de facto for a while. This must have been later, only after Fr. Jacob of St. Thomas had left the Congregation. On November 19, 1685, Bishop Wierzbowski renewed the canonical erection of the Congregation of 1679 and explained that Fr. Stanislaus was to be the Superior of the Congregation for life, which meant that his authority extended also to the Cenacle where Fr. Jacob of St. Thomas remained as the Superior of the house. 251 In this sense, Fr. Papczynski was Praepositus Congregationis ac eius Do- morum . 252 Furthermore, the Ordinary once again set the borders of