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ceived without sin” his heart, his soul, his intellect, his memory, his will, his feelings, his mind, his external and internal senses, his body, leaving for himself absolutely nothing, so as to become the servant of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 34 Later, he instilled this special love and dedication to the Blessed Mother in the members of the religious order which he founded. It was for quite some time that Fr. Papczyn- ski carried the idea of a religious order dedicated to Mary in his heart. After he had left the Piarists, the Bishop of Plock, John Gebicki, of- fered him the office of a Canon and invited him to his diocese. Father Papczynski declined the offer, so that he would be able to realize his own intention. 35 Even when he asked the Piarists to accept him back into their community, he made a condition that they should dedicate themselves to spreading the honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 36 When he discerned that it was not God’s will for him to return to the Piarists, he founded a new reli- gious institute dedicated to Mary. In the rule of the new Congregation, Fr. Papczynski ordered his confreres to do everything in their power to promote the cult of “the Immaculate Conception of the Most Elect Blessed Virgin Mary.” 37 He recommended that the confreres always display unshakeable ven- eration for the “Virgin conceived without sin,” and remember what they had vowed to “God and the Most Elect Virgin.” It was his de- sire that God find “the sweetest predilection in the Most Elect Vir- gin, Mother of God, Mother of Mercy, the only Hope and Rescue of all sinners.” 38 In his testament, Fr. Stanislaus ordered his successor to continue to make certain that the members of the Congregation venerate the Most Holy Virgin Mary by reciting the Little Office of the Immac- ulate Conception and the entire Rosary. 39 Father Stanislaus always placed his hopes of obtaining heaven in the Blessed Mother’s exceptional privilege, i.e., in her Immaculate Conception. He discussed this truth in his sermons “on the excep- tional, and free from original stain, Conception of the Most Holy 425 Posthumous Cult