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years old at that time. I was staying at the hospital for infectious dis- eases on Wolska Street. In the opinion of the doctors, my condition was hopeless. My mother obtained permission for me to make my confession and receive my First Holy Communion at the hospital. When this was taking place, I was completely aware, for I must say that I often lost consciousness before. As I later learned from my mother, she prayed for me and my health through Fr. Papczynski’s intercession. And it is to his intercession that she attributes my heal- ing. Wlodek from Warsaw.” “I would like to complete my son’s statement and add that as I prayed the Novena to Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski, all the children with whommy son was supposed to go to First Holy Communion prayed together for him on that day. Reverend Pastor Bakalarz led them in those prayers. I turned to him when the doctors refused to help me because they had lost any hope of saving my son. “Our prayers were answered and, after receiving First Holy Com- munion, my son began to recuperate. It so happened that some doc- tors from the Hospital of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, where my son had stayed earlier, were visiting the hospital on Wolska Street. When they entered the room where my son was lying and read his name on the chart, along with the description of his condition, they expressed their surprise by saying: «So this patient is still alive?» “For everything that God sent me through Fr. Stanislaus Papczyn- ski’s hands, I am truly grateful and will be grateful till the end of my life. Antonia, the mother.” 151 *** Paul Claudel said: “There is a man who was given a task in the morning and became one with it — a doctor, a poet, a soldier, a farmer, a builder of homes — he offers his work to God; the work which rises around him and under him like an altar, which bears his name.” Father Stanislaus Papczynski was a doctor of souls and a poet. He was also a farmer, a builder of homes, and a soldier in the service 455 Posthumous Cult