Lumen 2018

plications — the doctor decided that he had to go to the hospital, I began to pray the novena, asking for Fr. Stanislaus’s intercession, and to receive Holy Communion every day. It was as early as on the fifth day that my husband regained his strength, his fever broke, and he recuperated without having to go to the hospital. “Yet another time, my other daughter, a high school senior in Warsaw, dropped out of school and began to live a dangerous life. I was very worried and concerned. I realized what danger she was in because I knew what path she had entered, and I really prefer not to discuss it here. I felt helpless. I did not even know where to look for her and how to help her. But I kept calling with all my hope: «Fr. Stanislaus, Rev. Servant of God, help me.» I recognized my rescue in him. I began to pray, to recite the Novena. I did not even ask that my daughter would graduate from high school, only that she would abandon the wrong path she had chosen and return home. “At that time, we had a Lenten retreat at our church. I received Holy Communion for the intention of my daughter, and I prayed to the Servant of God Fr. Stanislaus. On the second day of the re- treat, when I returned from church, someone quietly knocked at our door. I held my breath. Yes, it was my daughter returning home. I received her like the biblical father received his prodigal son. “My daughter made a break with her past, with Warsaw, with the company that she used to keep. She found work nearby and became a really exemplary girl and an honest Catholic. “All of this happened because of Rev. Fr. Stanislaus. Therefore, I am convinced of his sanctity and I pray for his beatification. Thanks be to God. Very grateful, L.” 149 *** “On Wilenska Street in Warsaw, there lived a staunch atheist, gravely ill with tuberculosis of the lungs, together with his wife, who was an even fiercer atheist. When their neighbors wanted to bring a priest to the sick man, his wife told them that she “would never allow 453 Posthumous Cult