Lumen 2018

toral ministry, especially among the simple folk who lived in poverty and were deprived of any pastoral care. He also performed other works of mercy with regard to body and soul. He freed the people who came to him from various diseases and afflictions, and, as tradi- tion maintains, often helped in a miraculous way those who were gravely ill. For those reasons, he was considered to be a saint even when he was still alive. He distinguished himself by humility, poverty, a spirit of mortifi- cation, and other virtues. It was also his concern to lead his confreres by word and example to the heights of perfection. In his book The Mystical Temple of God , he presented a way of pursuing holiness for lay people. Amidst various difficulties, he fulfilled the duties of Superior General and was the spiritual father of theMarian Institute, first at the Korabiew Forest (todayMarian Forest, PuszczaMarianska), and then, from1677 until his death, at a small monastery adjacent to the little Church of the Cenacle in Nowa Jerozolima (today Gora Kalwaria). In order to secure the legal status of his Congregation of the Immaculate Conception, he obtained papal approbation for it in 1699. He was the first Marian to make his profession of solemn vows on the Rule of the Ten Virtues of the Blessed VirginMary. Soon after, due to physical exhaustion, caused by his zealous apostolic work and constant mortification, he died in the opinion of sanctity on September 17, 1701. The beatification cause of the Servant of God Stanislaus was un- dertaken during the [information] process conducted in the years 1767-1769 at the Warsaw Curia. After the evidence collected dur- ing the process had been examined, a decree super scriptis of the Servant of God was issued in Rome in 1775. However, due to the lack of certain documents and sufficient information necessary to clarify some circumstances of his life, the cause was put on hold in the same year. In subsequent years (even though the fame of Fr. Stanislaus’s sanc- tity continued), due to constant wars and persecutions suffered by 479 Decree on His Heroic Virtues