Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 444 Zaluski of Kiev (1759-1774), on April 9, 1767, to begin the Infor- mation Process. Finally, on June 10, 1767, at the bishop’s residence in Warsaw, the Bishop’s Court, acting on behalf of the Ordinary of Poznan, began the long awaited Information Process. Alas, the eye- witnesses (i.e., the witnesses de visu ) were no longer alive. Only the testimonies given by six witnesses “ex auditu” were heard. Those witnesses were: four Marians (Benedict Hoennig, Cyprian Fi- jalkowski, Dionysius Kisielinski, and Isidore Taudt), as well as Fr. Martin Luba and Adalbert Magnuszewski. The Process lasted till October 4, 1769. The Acts of the Process, confirmed by the Ordi- nary of Poznan, Bishop Andrew Stanislaus Mlodziejowski, were sent to the Sacred Congregation of Rites in Rome by a special messenger, Valentine Czubernatowicz. There, through a request submitted by the Postulator General on June 13, 1771, the Holy See granted a dispensation “a non integro lapsu decenii a die praesentationis” of the Process. In 1772, Cardinal Ponente presented a list of nineteen letters to the Holy See requesting an Introductory Commission. The letters were written by bishops, superiors of religious orders, state officials, and other people. On January 18, 1774, in response to the letter of May 23, 1772, Bishop Mlodziejowski sent all of Fr. Stanis- laus’s manuscripts and other documents to the Sacred Congregation of Rites. On July 22, 1775, the Sacred Congregation issued a decree regarding Fr. Papczynski’s writings ( super scriptis ) signed by Cardinal Marefoschi. The decree confirmed that Fr. Papczynski’s writings did not contain anything contrary to the faith or morality. Finally, after “Informatio” 121 and “Summarium” 122 had been prepared and pub- lished, Giovanni Alegiani, an attorney of the beatification process, copied the theses presented by the Promoter of the Faith in “Ani- madversiones” 123 and thus the entire procedure was concluded. 124 Interruption and Resumption of the Process The beatification process that had started so successfully, was in- terrupted in 1775, because not enough care was given to collecting