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417 to destroy our Order, the fact that the body was not decayed certainly was not to his liking.” Father Sydry who quoted the above text also added: “The body of our Renovator, Fr. Mat- ulewicz, lying for almost eight years in the crypts of the cathe- dral in Kaunas, flooded by water in spring, did not decay; only the face was somewhat damaged around the nose.” Sydry 256. 136. “Jam nunc video, quod vos ipsum pro Sancto habebitis.” VW § 106, Positio 707. 137. Ibid. 138. The permission for the exhumation and relocation of Fr. Pa- pczynski’s earthly remains to a new grave, August 11, 1739. The original copy (1775), Arch, S.C.R. Proc. 1786.; Proc. Inf. Posn. Wysz., ff. 406-407v, Positio 763; A report from the ex- humation and relocation of Fr. Papczynski’s remains to a new grave, June 18, 1740, Positio 765; Navikevicius 231. 139. DW, Ann. 2, 24 (April 10, 1752). 140. Permission for exhumation and relocation of Fr. Papczynski’s earthly remains to a new grave, February 2, 1752, Positio 767. 141. Decrees by various Chapters regarding the care of Fr. Pa- pczynski’s earthly remains, September 11, 1757, and August 10, 1760. A contemporary copy in ADL, B, 235, ProtGoslin ff. 66r, 71r. Positio 759-771. The End of Father Stanislaus’s Life
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