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The Renewal of the Marian Order in 1909-1910 26 The Congregation for the Religious began consideration of the matter of the Marian Order even before it received the required doc- uments. As it can be deduced from an internal memorandum of the Congregation, on August 10, 1910, Rev. Wladyslaw Marszalkiewicz, a Resurrectionist and a consultant to the committee to approve new monastic institutes, presented his comments on the received draft of the constitutions. 76 In a letter to Prelate Caroli concerning the draft of the constitutions, Rev. Matulewicz wrote: “I have also reviewed the old charters of the Marian Order, amending them in accordance with the Standards and the most recent guidelines of the Church.” 77 Working on the text, he was perusing three basic types of sources: the Marian constitutions of 1787, the Standards of the Congregation of the Religious of 1901, and “the most recent guidelines of the Church,” the latter presumably referring to the recent Orders and above all the oral suggestions expressed by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Religious, Cardinal Jose Vives y Tuto discussed above. Thus, while Rev. Matulewicz preserved the Marian heritage in the draft, he also adapt- ed it to political conditions and apostolic needs under Russian rule within the Universal Church of his own time. 78 76 ACIVCSVA, Protocollum 1909, part 1, vol. 6900, no. 3544/09, “Risoluzione 10 VIII 1910 V. Marszalkiewicz.” His review of the constitutions could not be found. In the copy of the constitutions preserved in the Archives of the Congregation for the Religious, all amendments are written in the handwriting of Undersecretary Rodolfo Caroli. 77 See Document 27. 78 On this subject: Feliks Bartecki, Rozwój prawa partykularnego Zakony OO. Marianow w latach 1670-1910 [Development of special laws pertaining to the Marian Fathers Congregation, 1670-1910], Warsaw 1967 (typescript; BA thesis in the Academy of Catholic Theology (ATK); Julian Kalowski, Koniecznosc zmiany struktury prawnej Zakonu Marianow [The Need to Change the Legal Structure of the Marian Congregations], “Prawo Kanoanoniczne” 21 (1978) Nos. 1-2, pp.113-121; Marek Mikus, Ewolucja Konstytucji Zgromadzenia Ksiezy marianow w latach 1910-1930 ( studium prawno historyczne ) [Evolution of the Marian Constitutions, 1910-1930 (an essay in the history of law)], Lublin 1990 (typescript, a BA thesis in the Catholic University in Lublin (KUL)); Witold Nieciecki, Glowne cechy duchowowsci Zgromadzenia Ksiezy Marianow w swietle konstytucji marianskich z 1930 r . [The Main Characteristics of