Lumen 2018

57 birth being given. Another confirmation that the year 1631 was in- deed considered to be the year of Fr. Papczynski’s birth, can be found in the document recording his religious profession in the Order of the Piarist Fathers on July 22, 1656. The document states that Papczynski was 25 years of age at that time. 66 Similarly, that date is confirmed by a list of members of the Polish Province of the Piarist Fathers dated November 11, 1663 67 and a list of members of their house in Warsaw dated December 7, 1666. 68 Rebirth through Baptism Immediately after the birth, on the same day, the child was bap- tized at the local church and given the name of John. 69 Wyszynski reported this fact and he took this information from the records of the parish church in Podegrodzie. Those records did not survive to our times. The oldest records that did, date back only to 1651 be- cause the earlier ones were burnt in a fire which occurred during the time when Rev. Anthony Nawrocki (1786-1822) was pastor there. 70 Father Papczynski’s baptismal certificate, issued after the parish record of baptisms before the latter perished, was sent to Rome in 1772 by the Bishop’s Curia of Cracow. Podegrodzie, Fr. Stanislaus’s birthplace, belonged to the Diocese of Cracow at that time. Later, the certificate disappeared, just as did the second baptismal certificate sent from the Diocese of Cracow to Rome in 1773. 71 The fact of Fr. Papczynski’s baptism was also confirmed by testi- monies given in the Information Process — the testimonies based on written documents and oral tradition. 72 It was further confirmed, although indirectly, by the fact of Fr. Papczynski’s acceptance into the Order of the Piarists in 1654, at which time the candidate must have been asked to submit his baptismal certificate. 73 In 1654, as he joined the Piarist Order, Papczynski changed the name John, which he had received at baptism, to a religious name of Stanislaus of Jesus Mary, 74 which he continued to use until his Stanislaus Papczynski’s Childhood and Youth