MARIANS IN 1670-1788 68 in Volhynia (now Ukraine) and another in Lithuania. The words of Fr. Stanislaus from his Fundatio Domus Recollectionis are worth recalling. He stated in 1674-1675: “I would already — in these two years — have both a few houses and many companions.”39 Yet — since he always scrupulously observed all rules and “Church customs” — he was careful in accepting new foundations. Some light on the unknown foundations is shed by request made by Fr. Papczyński in a letter to the Congregation of Bishops and Religious, asking “that the said Congregation would be able to own movable and immovable property, with confirmation of ownership of the land and foundations which its members currently own, namely in Góra, in the Korabiew Forest and in Woraszcze as well as in others that exist during the specific time.”40 He repeated a similar request in a letter to Pope Innocent XII. The letter contains information about the Marian Order and eight serious spiritual requests, including one for the confirmation of “the ownership rights to lands and facilities in possession by the Order’s members in Góra, the Korabiew Forest and Woraszcze as well as the others existing at a given time.”41 From the above documents, it appears that the Marian Order possessed a monastery in Volhynia in 1692, with at least three monks, as required by Church regulations. Even more intriguing is the information provided by the Voivode of Rawa, Alexander Załuski.42 This voivodeship included the Korabiew Forest along with the Marian monastery. In 1699, Alexander Załuski, in support of the Marian Order’s efforts to obtain papal approval, wrote three letters of recommendation to the Holy See.43 In these letters, he 39 St. Papczyński, Fundatio Domus Recollectionis, 26, in: Selected Writings, p. 913. 40 St. Papczyński, Second petition addressed to the Congregation of Bishops and Religioius, on Aug. 22, 1692, in: Selected Writings, p. 953. 41 St. Papczyński, Petition to the Holy Father Pope Innocent on Sept. 13, 1692, in: Selected Writings, p. 956. 42 Alexander Załuski was a high-ranking official in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and his relatives held important positions in the government. His son, Andrzej Chryzostom Załuski (1650-1711), was appointed as the Bishop of Kyiv in 1683. See: Piotr Nitecki, Biskupi Kościoła w Polsce w latach 965-1999, Warszawa 2000, p. 505. 43 See Prot. Ord., 143-145. The first letter, dated March 22, 1699 stated: “Praeterea horum Religiosorum [marianorum] ea est modestia, exemplaritas, Recollectio, Zelus in ferenda ope Parochis circa animarum chram, et Divinae gloriae promovendae studium, ut ardenissime ad novas Fundationes expetantur, quas acceptare illi nolunt, imo et binas dimiserunt, cum magno animarum detrimento, in Russia et Lituania (ubi inter Schismaticos egregie rem Catholicam promovere caeperant) propterea quo S. Sedis Apostolicae non dum habeant Confirmationem
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