Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 340 circiter ab illa visione quatuor, me itineri longissimo commiserim, et quadraginta miliaria Germanica e Domo Paterna ad eremum confecerim sanus et integer.” From a letter written by the Servant of God to Fr. Alexio Armini, Superior General of the Piarist Fa- thers, March 23, 1688, § 6, Positio 241. 75. This happened during the canonical visitation conducted by Bishop Swiecicki in 1674. 76. “Verum ego fretus ope Divina hominem fraudulentum et ver- sipellem citavi ad Visitatorem, utque iuramentum emitteret vivendi iuxta leges datas adegi. Et iam ibat crucem adoraturus, in manibus Visitatoris iuraturus. Ego tamen inconstantia hominis praevisa exclamavi ne faceret, brevi periurium admissurus, pro- baret virtutem potius tres hebdomadas, tunc denique iuraret.” Fundatio § 22, Scripta 94. 77. “O bonum Deum! Quae illius erat hoc tempore observatio, pudet referre. Sum equidem ipse fragilis et ingemisco haec ad- notans; nescio an gratia, an odio sum dignus, tamen vereor im- pingere, si palam deffendam vel excusem, quod palam male agitur. Dominus nos illuminet, ignoscat, dirigat, deinceps in via mandatorum suorum.” Ibid., § 23, Scripta 95. 78. These statutes were not binding in other houses. Cf. the docu- ment of the foundation of the Congregation. 79. Fundatio § 25, Scripta 96. 80. Churches which date back to Fr. Papczynski’s times survived in the following villages: Wiskitki — the church under the title of St. Stanislaus the Bishop, dating back to 1585. Above the main altar — a stained glass image of St. Michael the Archangel. In the years 1670-1674, Rev. Nicholas Duperoi was pastor here. In the years 1674-1705 — Rev. Nicholas Swiecicki; Rawa Ma- zowiecka — the church under the title of the Immaculate Con- ception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, dating back to 1613. St. Stanislaus the Bishop is the Patron Saint of the parish. In the