Lumen 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS L IST OF ABBREVIATIONS .......................................................... 9 P REFACE .............................................................................. 17 I NTRODUCTION .................................................................... 31 C HAPTER I: Stanislaus Papczynski’s Childhood and Youth .... 43 The Family Nest ...................................................... 43 The School Years ...................................................... 62 Adolescence ............................................................ 67 C HAPTER II: At the Piarist Fathers........................................ 95 The Order of the Pious Schools .............................. 95 The Path of Vocation .............................................. 99 Christ’s Priesthood.................................................. 118 C HAPTER III: At the Crossroads ..........................................163 Misunderstandings ..................................................163 A Thorny Path ........................................................168 Departure from the Piarists ......................................186 C HAPTER VI: Foundation of a New Religious Order ............247 Birth of the Congregation of Marian Fathers ............247 Development of the Congregation of Mary Immaculate ................................................265 Efforts to Obtain Approbation from the Holy See ....304 C HAPTER V: The End of Father Stanislaus’s Life .................. 363 Papal Approbation .................................................. 363 Solemn Profession....................................................393 Last Moments ..........................................................399 C HAPTER VI: Posthumous Cult ............................................419 Spiritual Profile ...................................................... 419