Lumen 2018

349 Foundation of a New Religious Order of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary erected in the Korabiew Forest for God’s greater glory and for the sal- vation of the souls of the dead. We incorporate ecclesiasticae im- munitati the foundation where the monastery is standing together with the meadow, and we take this congregation under our perpetual protection and the protection of the Re- public of Poland.” Approbatio fundatio nis eremitarum in eremo Korabieviensi, April 27, 1677, in: Volumina Legum — Reprint of the Collection of Laws by the Efforts of the Piarist Fathers in Warsaw from 1732 to 1782, vol. V., St. Petersburg 1860, 241 a, n. 118; Positio 378. 134. The document was prefaced with the following official note: “Actum in Curia Regia Vasiviensi Feria Quinta post Domini- cam Misericordiae [=second Sunday after Easter, with the first words of the Introitu: Misericordia Domini ; A. Capelli, op. cit., 27] proxima Anno Domini Millesimo Sexcentesimo Septua- gesimo Septimo”; Positio 377. The document under discussion did not survive to our times but was kept in the Marian archives during the Information Process and was presented on May 29, 1769, to be later included in the acts of the process. 135. VW § 50, Positio 680-681, also footnote 88. The newly elected King John III Sobieski set out from Warsaw on August 22, 1674, towards the eastern border of Poland to fight the Turks. The war lasted the entire winter of 1674/75. At that time, Poland was trying to recapture the lost territories in Ukraine, where the king engaged his army to hold onto the territories that he won back, before returning to the central regions (April 12, 1675). The war was resumed in the fall of 1675 in Podolia and ended with a victory in November of the same year. O. Laskowski, John III Sobieski, Lvov 1933, 135, 137, 141-152. 136. VW § 50, Positio 680-681; Memoriale donorum... , excerpts and summary in: ProtBals 200, where we read among others: “Donum A. 1675. ingentem devotionem [Servus Dei Stanis-