127 Apostolate or Contemplation: 1677-1723 by the aggregating order.”219 Therefore, everything indicates that the main architect of the Marian dependency on the Reformed Franciscans was Fr. Joachim Kozłowski. It should be accepted that Fr. Casimir Wyszyński is a credible source because he knew Fr. Kozłowski. They were together in Rome, and he lived in the Marian Order under his leadership for seven years. According to him, Fr. Kozłowski dreamed of being recognized as a “Marian patriarch” and “Founder of the Order.” Fr. Wyszyński wrote unfavorably about him: “He opposed our Founder in many ways. He did not always act according to his ordinances. Also, he changed the Founder’s decisions [...] and would not agree to his [beatification] process.”220 Fr. Teixeira assessed Joachim Kozłowski in even harsher words, accusing him of despotism in leading the Congregation, hiding the virtues and merits of Fr. Papczyński, and blocking the beatification process so that these virtues would not come to light. He also left the body of the Founder Father in damp soil, despite the request of fellow brethren, to hasten its decay.221 His confrères also accused him of a lack of effort to obtain the approval of the Norma Vitae, although, according to Julian Kałowski, there were strong grounds for it.222 Certain facts support the above interpretation: first, the repeated strong warnings directed towards Joachim Kozłowski in the testament of Father Papczyński, who wrote: “I oblige him, by the awful judgment of God, that he would not innovate anything in regard to the habit I have prescribed, or to the name of the Order; nor may he dare to impiously abolish the veneration of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary.” In the same document, he warned Fr. Kozłowski: “I declare [him] to be [my] successor as well, obliging his conscience, by the severe judgment of God, to be as strict as possible in ensuring that the religious Rule imprinted by God be observed.”223 Second, there is the testimony of Fr. Wyszyński about Joachim Kozłowski: “When he was sent to Rome to get the approval of the Constitutions, he did not endeavor for it [...], he intended 219 J. Kałowski, Problem zależności, p. 73. 220 Wyszyński, Stróż, pp. 162-163. 221 Teixeira, P. 234. When Joachim Kozłowski drowned in the Vistula River in 1730, João Teixeira considered it as God’s intervention and commented, “This misfortune was deemed a just punishment for his foolish recklessness and vain conceit.” 222 J. Kałowski, Problem zależności, pp. 62-63. 223 S. Papczyński, Second Testament, 12, 15, in: Selected Writings, p. 937. 939.
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