Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 454 any priest to come near her husband.” For them, the party and Com- munism were gods. “I felt sorry that this man’s soul should be lost. I decided to pray ardently together with my sister. Each one of us prayed a Novena to the Rev. Servant of God, Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski, asking him for a miracle, asking him that the sick man himself ask to see a priest. We prayed the Novena three times. I did not stop trusting even for a moment in the efficacy of our prayer. A few days later, the sick man began to feel much worse. His wife called the ambulance. He was taken to the hospital on Wolska Street, to the tuberculosis ward. There was absolutely no chance that he could go to confession be- cause his wife kept a tight watch and told the hospital staff not to let any priest in. Those were the years of hard Communism. Every time, when she came to the hospital, she would ask the other patients whether anyone had tried to persuade her husband to go to confes- sion in her absence. She even threatened people with prison should anyone dare to “bring this religious propaganda to my husband.” The sick man’s condition deteriorated even further, and he was moved to a smaller room where only two other patients were lying. His wife did not know about this because she was at home at that time. Early in the morning, the sick man himself asked that a priest be brought to him: «I want to make a confession,» he said. “A chaplain from the parish church came. The sick man made his confession. Mrs. Teresa, a nurse, was a witness to his conversion. She gave him her little cross to kiss after the confession. On the next day, the sick man died peacefully. His wife was not present at his death. “The Rev. Servant of God Fr. Stanislaus never fails those who place their trust in him. Convinced of Fr. Stanislaus’s sanctity, Joann.” 150 *** “I state that in 1957 I became ill with spotted fever and typhoid fever at the same time. My condition was grave. I was only nine