Lumen 2018

turn: Jacob Ostranica, Demetrius Hunia, Karp Skidan, and Bohdan Chmielnicki. They were all successfully subdued by the famous Je- remy Wisniowiecki. 127 Meanwhile, all the peasants in Ukraine took up arms and started a conflagration that left the Golden Age of the Republic of Poland in smoldering ruins. 128 At the same time, Papczynski was in Lvov, where his personal drama began in the summer of 1648 and ended, as we know, with a miraculous recuperation. In Podoliniec After Papczynski regained his health, he decided to continue his studies at the high school level. He still needed to complete one grade of grammar as well as poetics and rhetoric. Therefore, at the end of April or the beginning of May 1649, in spite of a three-year break, he went to Podoliniec, 60 kilometers away, where he enrolled in a school run by the Piarist Fathers. 129 Since Podoliniec played an important role in the life of the Founder of the Marians, it would be worthwhile to give it a little bit more attention. Podoliniec is a town located in eastern Slovakia on the Poprad River with a population of about 2,000 (as of 1960). In 1412, it was returned to Poland by Hungary together with other towns of Spisz. In 1642, the Piarist Fathers arrived in Podoliniec at the invitation of Prince Stanislaus Lubomirski. Their church and monastery were built between the years 1642 and1648, according to the design of a Vi- ennese architect named Pochsberger. In the years 1719-1721, Rev. Stanislaus Konarski was a teacher at that school. In 1769, Podoliniec was seized by the Habsburg dynasty and incorporated into Hungary. Since 1918, it has belonged to Czechoslovakia. The entire group of monastery buildings is one of the more mag- nificent complexes of this town. The early Baroque building complex is located in the northern part of town, outside the city walls. It is a 71 Stanislaus Papczynski’s Childhood and Youth