Lumen 2018

449 Posthumous Cult of a religious order. Meanwhile, some consultants brought charges against him, without considering the nature of this polemical writing. They claimed that such writing should, in principle, show the values that are being defended and condemn the unjust attacks of the en- emies. Due to this misunderstanding, Apology became an affront to many consultants. 141 However, had they consulted Fr. Papczynski’s other writings, that were not apologetic in nature, they would have seen an image of a wise, moderate, and balanced man. “In these writ- ings, like in a mirror, one can see his longing for heaven, his love of God and neighbor, his love for the Blessed Mother, and his submis- sion to the Holy Spirit in fulfilling God’s will.” 142 In other words, some consultants ignored certain important facts from Fr. Papczyn- ski’s life and some important documents gathered in Positio . After all, during the time when Fr. Stanislaus was most humiliated, i.e., after his abduction and incarceration, other religious orders wanted him to join them. He was also highly esteemed by the Bishop of Cra- cow, the Bishop of Plock, and the Bishop of Poznan and Warsaw; they all defended him and offered him prestigious offices. Only two consultants noticed these facts. 143 Reservations with Regard to the Credibility of the Sources Some consultants contested certain facts or denied the credibility of certain sources under the pretext that they could not be confirmed in other documents. In this manner, without conducting special re- search, they labeled Fr. Papczynski’s first biographies as collections of fictitious descriptions and tendentious panegyrics. 144 Even G. Navikevicius, a Marian, 145 seemed to have given in to the same way of thinking when he stated that the aforementioned sources and the subsequent works that were based on them were legends. Because of this, he created a lot of confusion among both the Marian writ- ers 146 and some of the consultants. Meanwhile, the facts described in the aforementioned biographies are corroborated by other credible sources, such as, the record of the testimonies given by the witnesses