Ad Honorem Immaculatae Conceptionis Mariae Oblatio

37 should add that Fr. C. Reklaitis was aware of the fact that the first Marian house had been established in Puszcza Korabiewska in 1673. This is sup- ported, for one thing, by the comparative table of Superior Generals, which was published for the first time in this Jubilee Elenchus of 1934 and was undoubtedly the work of the same author. The title of this comparative table indicated that it covered the years 1673-1933, and not 1670-1933. Naturally, Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński was listed in the first place there as the Founder and first Superior General (1673-1701). 5 Therefore, the year 1673 was a well-known and important date for the author of this brief history of the Marians. That was the year when Stanislaus Papczyński became the Su- perior of the first Marian Fathers’ community, and also – due to the fact of being the only Superior – the Superior General of the entire Congregation, although it was formally established only in 1679, after the issuance of the installation decree by the Bishop. Therefore, Fr. C. Reklaitis distinguished three dates: 1670, 1673, and 1679. He mentioned the first date without any comment; he admitted knowing the second, but omitted it in his docu- ment; while the third date he regarded, as befits a lawyer, as the decisive one – the starting point of the whole founding process. The founding and approvals of the Congregation according to the Annuario Pontificio For the first time, the Marians were mentioned in the Papal Almanac of 1927 6 . The author of this note cannot be anyone else but Fr. C. Reklaitis, then the only General Council member residing in Rome (at 284 Corso Vit- torio Emanuele). The Annuario Pontificio communicated brief information about the individual religious orders each year. This information included two dates, typical for every religious community: the year of the origin and the year of Papal approval. The note of 1927 concerning the Marian Fathers contained two dates, namely: “founded in 1673, reformed in 1910.” The fol- lowing year’s edition provided an amended, more precise second date: “the Congregation was reformed and approved on Nov. 28, 1910.” 7 Character- istically, the date of the Renovation was not given as Aug. 29, 1909, or the day of Fr. George Matulaitis-Matulewicz’s first vows (as the Marians do it today), but the date of the Papal approval of the performed reforms, is- sued more than a year later. Furthermore, the change of the Procurator 5 Ibid, 17. 6 Annuario Pontificio, 1927, 435 nn. 7 Ibid, 1928, 455.