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then by Julius II in 1511. Positio super vita et virtutibus B. Beatricis de Silva Fundatricis Monialium Franciscalium a Sanctissima Con- ceptione, Roma, 1970. 7. Litterae ad Ordinem FratrumMinorum [Romae, III/IV ? 1691], Scripta 113-116. The petition contains a request that the Marian Rule of Life be adapted to that of the Order of the Immaculate Conception, the habit, the goal of aiding the souls suffering in Purgatory, and the free election of the Superior General excepted. 8. The copy of this request, available to us today, does not specify the place or the date of its writing. Rome must have been the place, which is evident from the document. It is also certain that the date of this request was earlier than April 20, 1691, because on that very day the said request is referred to as an accomplished fact. If we assume that Fr. Stanislaus arrived in Rome towards the end of February 1691, and that the decision could not have been made earlier than after a few weeks of talks and consultations, we may surmise that the request was composed some time at the end of March or the beginning of April 1691. Krzyzanowski 143-144. The original of the request did not survive, but we do have a sum- mary which was kept in the Marian archives. The summary was copied in 1705 in the Protocol of the Order of Marians under the title: Litterae Suplicatoriae ad OrdinemMinorum. Today, the text of the request is known from a copy made in 1744. The request was sent to the Order of Franciscan Friars (March-April 1691), Positio 507-508. 9. Letter of recommendation by Fr. Charles Francis da Varese OF- MObs, dated April 20, 1691, Positio 510. 10. Letter of recommendation by Fr. Charles Francis da Varese, Commissary General of the Order of Franciscan Friars, April 20, 1691, Positio 510-511. 11. Incorporation of the Marians into the Franciscan Order under the Rule of the Ten Virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Septem- 405 The End of Father Stanislaus’s Life