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The Renewal of the Marian Order in 1909-1910 32 about these events and ask for the appropriate approvals. He also needed to settle with the Congregation of Studies some matters he had been asked to handle for the St. Petersburg Academy. He stayed in Rome from the 15th to the 28th of November, 1911. With these matters at hand he approached Undersecretary Rodolfo Caroli at the Congregation of the Religious, whom he knew well. He gave a detailed report of the Order’s activities during the preceding two years. On Caroli’s advice, he filed the appropriate petitions. The Prelate congratulated him on the good start of the Institute and encouraged him to proceed along the chosen path. 103 The matters of the Marians were considered during a meeting of the Congregation on November 22. The following requests of Rev. Matulewicz were granted: (1) he was confirmed as General; 104 (2) permission was grant- ed to transfer the novitiate from St. Petersburg to Fribourg; 105 (3) it was agreed that he might also assume the obligations of the Novice Master; 106 (4) considering the conditions prevailing under czarist rule, it was agreed that oral permissions only had to be granted to candi- dates to the Order by Bishops Ordinary; 107 and other more detailed permissions were granted. On November 25, Rev. Matulewicz visited the Prefect of the Congregation for the Religious, Cardinal Vives y Tuto. He described to him the position of the Order. The Cardinal remembered well the visit two years earlier. He showed him sympathy and compassion. Rev. Matulewicz left him “fortified in spirit,” with a deep conviction: “What a good father of all monks His Eminence Vives y Tuto is.” 108 Taking the opportunity of staying in the Eternal City, Rev. Matulewicz met with the eminent expert on monastic life, Father Wlodzimierz Ledochowski, who “expressed his highest approval and 103 Ibid., pp. 132-134, 136. 104 See Documents 33 and 37. 105 See Documents 34 and 40. 106 See Documents 35 and 38. 107 See Documents 36 and 39. 108 Diary , p. 144, November 25, 1911.