Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 436 through Fr. Papczynski’s intercession in 1698, still recalled his piety when he gave this testimony in 1774. Fr. Jacob Wolski, OFMRef, who had met Fr. Papczynski in 1698, spoke about him in 1725, and said that Fr. Stanislaus was already in heaven with the saints, and that he commended himself to his prayers. In the 18 th century, numerous healings occurred through Fr. Pa- pczynski’s intercession. In 1754, Nicholas Twarowski’s dying daugh- ter was healed after invoking Fr. Stanislaus’s help. In the same year, two Portuguese men, who had been very seriously ill, regained their health through his intercession. Around the year 1766, Simon Kra- suski of Skorzec, bed-ridden for several weeks and without any hope of getting better, regained his health after he had invoked Fr. Pa- pczynski’s help. In 1767, Theophelia Morawska, suffering severely from the complications of childbirth and abandoned by her doctors, regained her health through Fr. Papczynski’s intercession. In 1771, Andrew Kuszewski’s son, tormented by convulsions for twelve days and nights, was healed through Fr. Stanislaus’s intercession. During the years 1752-1769, the Marians gathered many testi- monies confirming the opinion of Fr. Papczynski’s sanctity. The tes- timonies were given by people who had either been healed through his intercession or had received other graces. In the years 1750-1752, the opinion of his sanctity was strongly maintained by the Piarists in Lithuania and in Rome. In 1752, Adam Komorowski, the Archbishop of Gniezno and the Primate of Poland, wrote to Joseph Emmanuel I, King of Portugal, that the memory of Stanislaus Papczynski, who continued to be praised and blessed by the people, was still alive in Poland. His mem- ory was also alive in Lisbon where many people were obtaining graces through his intercession. A translation of his biography was published there and pictures of him were printed. 96 It is worth mentioning that the Marians did not recite the Office of the Dead or celebrate Holy Mass for Fr. Papczynski’s soul on the anniversary of his death because they were convinced that he was