The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

The Renewal of the Marian Order in 1909-1910 90 Appendix 3: Memorandum of J. Matulewicz for the Holy See concerning the Institute of the Marian Fathers [St. Petersburg, April 10, 1910] 1 Concerning the beginning and condition of the Marian Institute of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary.The Institute of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary was established by the Reverend Servant of God Stanislaw Papczynski. He laid the foundation for the Congregation in Puszcza Korabiewska [the Korabiewo Forest] in 1679 with the consent of the Bishop of Poznan, Stefan Wierzbowski. This Congregation, orig- inally with simple vows, had as its mission the sanctification of the monks themselves, propagation of worship of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, teaching religion to children along with their basic education, and extending help to the diocesan clergy. When the Congregation was expanded, it obtained approval of the Holy See in 1701 during the Pontificate of Pope Innocent XII. He ordered the profession of solemn vows and gave it the Rule of Emulation of the Ten Virtues or Ten Preferences of the Most Holy Virgin Mary approved by Popes Alexander VI, Julius II, and Leo X. The Congregation and its constitutions were approved again by Innocent XIII in 1723 and finally by Pius VI in 1786, who also decreed that the Congregation, until then attached to the Franciscan Observants, be sev- ered and declared independent of that Order. 2 1 No date on the original. The draft is dated September 10, 1910 (LVA). Since the memorandum was sent to Rome in May of 1910 (Document 30, Appendix 1), therefore the date should be April 10, 1910, which was when Rev. Matulewicz was preparing the documents for the Congregation of the Religious. 2 These data have been drawn from the introduction to “Regula imitationis decem beneplacitorum seu decem virtutum B. Virginis Mariae [...] Romae 1778, pp. V- VI and from the breve of Pius VI “Ex debito Pastoralis Officii” dated March 3, 1786, included in “Constitutiones Apostolicae pro Ordine Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatissimae Virginis Mariae Clericorum Regularium Marianorum.” [...] Romae 1787, pp. II-IV, XXI-XXII. Among the purposes of the Congregation, there is no mention of the particular task of helping the souls in Purgatory. Probably the author followed the example of the breve “Ex debito Pastoralis Officii” where this purpose of the Marians was also omitted.