Lumen 2018

423 confreres. 24 When he lived at the Korabiew Forest, the news about his piety and saintliness spread very quickly. Many people would come to that place as to a shrine to ask Fr. Papczynski for help in their troubles. His saintliness attracted a group of pious and educated candidates to the institute. Under Fr. Stanislaus’s direction, they made great progress in their spiritual lives and died themselves in the opinion of sanctity. 25 Bishop Wierzbowski, admiring the example of Fr. Stanislaus’s ded- icated and saintly life, gave him a foundation in Nowa Jerozolima in order to have him close by. 26 The same bishop testified in 1687 that, while Fr. Papczynski lived in his diocese for almost twenty years, he always conducted himself modestly and in an exemplary manner as a religious. 27 In 1699, Bishop Jerome Wierzbowski, too, stated that Fr. Stanislaus was a model priest, dedicated to working in the Lord’s vineyard, an educated man, and full of the Spirit. 28 In 1699, Bishop Denhoff wrote to Cardinal Marescotti that the Institute of the Marians was governed by a man famous for his virtue and piety. 29 In his Rule of Life , in various circulars, in the specific orders that he issued, Fr. Papczynski as the founder of a religious congregation, reminded his confreres about the necessity of ongoing spiritual for- mation and about striving for spiritual perfection. 30 As he tried to sum up Fr. Papczynski’s very rich spiritual portrait, Fr. Wyszynski stated that he was perfect in everything: untiring in work, in conducting religious services, in writing religious books. He taught the truths of the Christian faith, proclaimed the word of God, and gave instructions and admonishments necessary to im- prove one’s spiritual life. In Nowa Jerozolima, he often led proces- sions of the faithful to visit the places of the Lord’s Passion, delivered sermons, and sang hymns together with the faithful. He visited the suffering and the dying, encouraged the sinners to reform their lives, heard numerous confessions, assisted the sick in hospitals, and sup- ported the poor and the orphans; he commended them to the help Posthumous Cult