Lumen 2018

DECREE ON HIS HEROIC VIRTUES SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE CAUSES OF THE SAINTS DECREE IN THE DIOCESE OF POZNAN THE CANONIZATION CAUSE OF THE SERVANT OF GOD STANISLAUS OF JESUS MARY PAPCZYNSKI Founder of the Congregation of Marians under the title of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1631-1701) In answer to the question: Is it a certain thing that the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity; the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, as well as other virtues associated with these, are present in a heroic degree in the one to whom this cause regards? “I rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the joy of my soul; for He has clothed me with a robe of salvation, and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, ... Like a bride bedecked with her jewels” (Is 61:10). The above words, as if spoken by the Mother of God, Virgin Mary, for the glory of God who, by preserving her from “any stain of original fault,” has done “great things to her,” are used by the Church in the Holy Mass on the feast of the Immaculate Concep- tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Servant of God Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski always placed his great hope of attaining heavenly goods in this special privilege of the Blessed Mother. He often cried: Im-