Lumen 2018

S TANISLAUS P APCZYNSKI 66 ple who came to their rescue. They pulled the mother, the horses, and the cart out of the river. A bad adventure ended well. 110 There is no doubt that the rescuers appeared at this place due to the inter- vention of Divine Providence. 111 A Blessing for the Road There came a time for the boy to become more independent. It can be surmised that the school in Podegrodzie at that time did not have the third grade of grammar ( suprema ), and it was necessary to look for it at a school located far away from home. At the beginning of May, 1646, Johnny Papczynski, accompanied by his cousin (his aunt’s son), arrived in Jaroslaw to enroll at the Jesuit College there. 112 Jaroslaw is a city located on the San River, about 160 kilometers east of Podegrodzie. The local Jesuit College was famous for the high level of its humanities department. 113 Thus, at the age of fifteen, Johnny left his idyllic childhood behind and entered adult life. The fact that his cousin and another man, whose last name was Ciosek, 114 were going to accompany him in his journey, offered some consolation at this moment of parting with his family. After a several days’ journey, the boys arrived in Jaroslaw and were warmly received at the Jesuit college, where they studied from the middle of May till the end of that school year, i.e., the end of July, 1646. In those days Jaroslaw was famous for its fair attended by nu- merous merchants from Poland, Hungary, and Russia. 115 It was the largest fair in the country and one of the largest in all of central Eu- rope. 116 Each year the fair started on August 15th and lasted four weeks. Two other, but less famous, fairs took place on Ash Wednesday and on the Feast of St. Andrew. 117 Someone from Podegrodzie came to the August fair in Jaroslaw and brought the two young men money from their parents. Soon after, they set out for Lvov, 95 kilometers away from Jaroslaw, 118 to continue their studies. It seems that they