MARIANS IN 1670-1788 128 to transform our Order [...], this disobedient and stubborn confrère.”224 Third, there is the astonishing initiative displayed by Joachim Kozłowski in subordinating the Marians to the Reformates in all important matters. Analyzing this meager preserved documentation, the hypothesis that Joachim Kozłowski, while in Rome in 1699, had a well-thought-out, far-reaching plan to declare himself the founder of the Marian Order and to stay in the position of the general superior for as long as possible seems possible. According to the testimony of Fr. Isidore Taudt, Kozłowski, while seeking approval for the Marian order in 1699, not only did not seek approval for Fr. Papczyński’s Rule of Life but even concealed its existence.225 Georgio Navikevicius claimed that Joachim Kozłowski, while in Rome, probably had his own opinion on the choice of a rule, which was inconsistent with Father Papczyński’s program.226 While staying in Rome for over a year, Fr. Kozłowski established close contact with several Reformed Franciscans and, at their suggestion, adopted The Rule of the Ten Virtues. In 1702, for the first Chapter after the death of Fr. Papczyński, he asked the Nunciature to appoint a Reformed Franciscan as a delegate and chairman, something not practiced during the Founder’s lifetime.227 In 1703, Fr. Kozłowski asked the Reformed Franciscans to send the Marians a novice master and a professor of philosophy and theology,228 functions that had previously been carried out by the Marians themselves. It seems that in this way, he wanted to eliminate the influence of the “faithful sons” of the Founder on the Marian formation and management of the Order. Only three months before his death, in a letter to the confrères in the Korabiew Forest, Fr. Papczyński mentioned the novices, Gabriel and Paul, recommending to them the proper use of 224 Wyszyński Stróż, pp. 88, 126, 135. 225 “Al contrario, P. Taudt dichiaro che P. Gioacchino, richiesto quale regola avesse scelto il Fondatore, rispose che non ne aveva portato nessuna, e cosi il Papa gli insegno la Regola delle Dieci Virtu Della BVM.” Navikevicius, p. 204. 226 Ibid, pp. 264-265. 227 Prot. Ord., 164-165; Aleksy Koralewicz, Additament do Kronik Braci Mniejszych S. Franciszka, Warszawa 1722, p. 175. 228 A. Koralewicz, Additament, p. 176. “The letters of the Minister General were also read, in which he announced the acceptance of the Marian Fathers In Consodalitium of our Seraphic Order. He recommended them for affection, brotherly love, and protection from this Province, which their own praepositus Generalis, Father Joachim a S. Ann [Kozłowski], also requested. In order to assist them in their religious life and studies, he asked for a master of novitiorum and a lecturer in filosophiae and theologiae moralis.”
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