Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 350 laus] erga animas purgatorii concepit, finemque peculiarem Congregationis cum officio incoepit dicere 11 febr. 1676...”; DeVen 4-to, APS 5, f. 30r (orig., APS 6, f. 21r, Ad Prot n. 6); NV c. I, 2. Positio 463. 137. “Fratres, obsecro vos, orate pro Defunctis, quoniam intollera- biles paenas patiuntur.” VW § 51, Positio 681. 138. VW § 51, Positio 682. 139. VW § 52, Positio 682. Father Wyszynski writes that Fr. Pa- pczynski claimed that “God called this Congregation into being in the Church through him [...] in order to assist the souls in Purgatory with all possible efforts, under the title of the Im- maculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the most tender Mother and the most gracious Protectress of the Souls in Purgatory.” It was their duty to encourage the faithful to perform this work of mercy. Positio 683. 140. VW § 48, Positio 679. 141. Ibid., § 48, Positio 679-680, also footnotes 84 and 85; VF § 62, Positio 644; ProtBals 200. 142. VF § 63, Positio 645; PP 1, f. 130v; 2, f. 164v; 3, f. 251r; 4, f. 294r; 6, f. 359v-360r. 143. VW § 49; VF § 65, Positio 645. 144. VW § 53, Positio 682. 145. “Immo omnibus, qui hanc Immaculatae Conceptionis Con- gregatiunculam, ad auxilium fidelium defunctorum a Deo ex- citatam, complexi fuerint et protexerint, promitto de manu Dei duplicia.” Testamentum I, § 7, Scripta 120-121. 146. VW § 53. 147. Sydry 106. 148. Ibid., 107-108.