Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

125 lysts claim that it might have been added later, after the ceremony of his re- lease from religious vows in the Piarist Order. We will quote it here in full: Kazimierz near Cracow, in the Residence of the Priests of the Order of Pious Schools of the Poor of the Mother of God, in the presence of Very Reverend Father Michael of the Visitation, Vice-Provincial of the Polish Province, of the Religious Father Joseph of the Mother of God, President of the said Residence, and Venerable Clerics of Minor Orders Casimir of the Angels, and Bernard of the Lord’s Passion, on December 11, 1670. 48 The manner, in which Father Papczyński refers to the Piarist delegate, Father Michael, calling him “Very Reverend,” may indicate that he bore no grudge against anyone despite the harm done to him by the Piarist author- ities. This may also be indicative of how highly our holy Father Founder valued forgiveness. Although he gives a detailed description of his relation- ship with the Piarists in his Apology for the Departure from the Institute of Pious Schools , written only a year after his release from vows in the Order of Pious Schools, yet this autobiographical document shows no animosi- ty towards his former confreres, although Father Stanislaus certainly feels sorry that things went that way 49 . In the First Testament , he closely links his begging forgiveness for his giving offense to others with offering his own forgiveness: “similarly, I for- give all, even those who will attack me after my death, and I desire and en- treat the God of all goodness to be most merciful to them.” 50 On the other hand, in his second will, he returns to the matter of being persecuted in the Piarist Order, and although he does not hide his pain, he reproaches no one. Reading St. Stanislaus Papczyński’s other autobiographical works and letters, one can see that he highly valued the religious vocation and wanted to realize it as a Piarist, so even on the threshold of death he could not think about it calmly. In his testament he states: 48 Oblation , in: Historical Writings of Blessed Stanislaus Papczyński , Stockbridge, 2007, p. 29. 49 See Apology for the Departure from the Institute of Pious Schools, in: Historical Writings of Blessed Stanislaus Papczyński , Stockbridge, 2007. 50 First Testament , op. cit., p. 95.