Privileges Granted by Pope Pius VI to the Order of Marians Pius VI, Pope For the perpetual remembrance of the matter. The Pastoral Office entrusted to us by heaven requires that, we, having fatherly care over the sacred orders and religious congregations which dedicate themselves with commendable fervor to charity and works of Christian mercy, support their pious work and organizations by imparting graces and privileges to encourage their undertaking of toils, their ever more willing performance and diligent fulfilling of everything that we consider appropriate in the Lord. Our beloved son Norbert Gołkowski, Procurator General of the Order or the Congregation of Clerics Regular Marians in the Kingdom of Poland, recently submitted to us in the Roman Curia, that—since the aforesaid Order or Congregation has been recently separated and detached by us, with the advice of our venerable brethren, cardinals of our Holy Roman Church, in charge of the matters of bishops and religious, from the Order of the Friars Minor of St. Francis of the Strict Observance, as well as—also with the advice of the same Congregation—by another document in the form of a similar brief prepared on the same day for these priests called Marians, their Constitutions and Institute were approved and ratified, so that the three solemn vows can now be made in it similar to the other religious orders and institutes, approved by the Holy See, and various significant and devout works of mercy can be performed in helping pastors, as well as teaching the youth principles of Faith and basic education now and in the future; and so that it may always be carried out with great zeal, the said Norbert entreated us to grant and endow his Order or the
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