Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

25 cember 11, 1670, whereas a later date of our Congregation’s founding has been commonly accepted, namely: October 24, 1673. What has happened on each day? The true date: Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński’s Oblatio on December 11, 1670 On December 11, 1670, Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński received a dispensa- tion from his religious vows and the oath of perseverance in the Piarists Order. The ceremony, took place at the Piarists’ residence in Kazimierz near Krakow, according to the form prescribed by the General Superior of the Piarists. However, immediately after the ceremony a totally unex- pected event took place. In a subdued, but resonant voice, Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński declared: In the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ Crucified. Amen. – I, Stanislaus of Jesus Mary Papczyński, by flesh son of Thomas from Podegrodzie, in the diocese of Cracow, being 40 years of age, offer and dedicate to the Omnipotent God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and to the Mother of God, always Virgin Mary con- ceived without original stain, my heart, my soul, intellect, memory, will, feelings, whole mind, whole spirit, interior and exterior senses, and my body, leaving absolutely nothing to myself, so that from now on I may thus become entirely a servant of the same Omnipotent God and of the Blessed Virgin Mary. – Therefore, I promise to fervently serve Them in chastity to the end of my life, in this Society of the Marian Clerics of the Immacu- late Conception (which I desire to found by the grace of God), and conform my morals to its laws, statutes and rites, and to never act, or permit or consent, not even indirectly, that these be in some way suppressed, or changed, or dispensed from, unless for a serious and legitimate necessity. – Moreover, I promise obedience, understood in a sound way, to the Most Holy Vicar of Jesus Christ and to his delegated authority, and to my all indirect and immediate Superiors, and I promise that I shall have nothing privately, but everything in common. – I avow that I believe in whatever the Holy Roman Church belie- ves and will successively teach to be believed, mostly indeed I avow