Lumen 2018

Mary, Virgin, Mother of the Incomprehensible God, intercede for us.” 130 Later the Marians would recite this prayer, in choir or outside the choir, after the prayer: Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitati . .. . 131 Father Papczynski’s grave was opened for the first time, with per- mission for exhumation, in 1705. It was discovered that his body re- mained quite undamaged, only the face around the nose was somewhat decayed. The body did not have an unpleasant but a pleas- ant odor, even though the casket was rotted through in the wet soil. Father Stanislaus’s habit had lost hardly any of its color. However, the habit and the casket were changed. 132 The grave was opened for the second time during the canonical visitation of the Cenacle by Adam Rostkowski, the Bishop of Luck, 133 around 1716 134 or 1721. 135 It was discovered again that the body was not decayed. Upon seeing the body undamaged, as if it had been buried recently, the bishop exclaimed to the religious: “You will cer- tainly consider him a saint because of this.” 136 Then he told them to close the grave and was much kinder to the Marians later on. 137 Father Papczynski’s body did begin to decay only within the next several years when water flooded the monastery grounds and the floor of the church. The flooding continued for 15 years, and the rotten beams crushed the coffin and pressed Fr. Stanislaus’s body into the mud. After some time, only his bones remained. Father Wyszynski, the Superior General of the Marians from 1737, ex- humed the bones in 1739/1740, with authorization given by Fr. Anthony Grzegorzewski, Vicar for Warsaw. 138 He removed the bones from the mud and put them in a different casket. 139 Then, in 1752, Fr. Cajetan Wetycki, the Superior General of the Marians, had a new casket made and Fr. Stanislaus’s remains were moved to a new grave. 140 Father Papczynski’s casket was opened for the last time in 1766, with the permission of Bishop Felix Turski, Ordinary of Chelm and, at the same time, Auxiliary Bishop of Warsaw. At that time, due to the efforts of the Superior General, Fr. Hiacynth Wasilewski, a sar- 403 The End of Father Stanislaus’s Life