The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

109 Documents 3 Przezdziecki, Henryk Ignacy (1875-1939), Bishop of Podlasie from 1918 to 1939, (PSB, XXIX, pp. 68-70). entire Institute was approved with some changes in comparison with the old constitutions of the ancient Marians approved by Popes Innocent XII and XIII. During the past month, I was approached by a certain Stanislaw Pietrzak, professed brother of the Congregation of Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary of the Marian Brothers, declaring that he was accepted together with others by the last Marian in 1913. He asked that he and his associates might lead communal life in the diocese of Podlasie in accordance with those old constitutions confirmed by Popes Innocent XII and Innocent XIII. I have the best reports concerning said Stanislaw Pietrzak. It would be very desirable that the Marian Congregation based on the old constitutions could be renewed in the Diocese of Podlasie. It would replenish the shortage of monks in the diocese. It would receive the Marian House in Gozlin and most importantly it would promote and constantly stimulate the prac- tice, so dear to the faithful, of prayer for the dead who gave their lives for the Faith. Therefore I would be most happy to accept the members of this Order into the diocese. Therefore, I request responses from the Holy Congregation: 1. Was the Marian Congregation dissolved by the Holy See on account of the reform of the constitutions of the Marian Fathers per- formed by the decree of November 28, 1910, No. 3544/09? 2. Are those Marians of the old observance allowed to conduct com- munal life in the diocese of Podlasie in accordance with the unreformed constitutions approved by Popes Innocent XII and Innocent XIII? If some special consent of the Holy See is required, I humbly request and implore that such consent, for the good of the Church, graciously not be refused. Submitting all this with deep reverence and humility, I sign as the most dedicated servant in Christ. + Henryk Przezdziecki Bishop of Siedlce or Podlasie 3 ACIVCSVA, S 26, vol. 1, original, in Latin, No. 7079.