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The Renewal of the Marian Order in 1909-1910 34 remained. 112 The whole process of Marian Renewal was sponsored from beginning to end by Bishop Kazimierz Ruszkiewicz, Suffragan and Vicar General of the WarsawArchdiocese as steward of the Orders. He knew Father Pielasinski personally and did not deem it necessary to let him in on the secret of the Renewal. Rev. Julian Kalowski, after research, arrived at the following conclusion: “Everything seems to indicate that Father Bernard Pielasinski was secularized.” 113 No wonder that Rev. Matulewicz and then the Congregation of the Religious repeatedly referred to Father Sekowski as the last Marian. Rev. Matulewicz paid a visit to Pietrzak in Krakow on his way from Fribourg to Lithuania in the end of May, 1914. He learned that Pietrzak was conducting a campaign to revive the Marian Order and, in doing so, he was exposing the Congregation. Matulewicz informed him of the accomplished Renewal. As related by Bronislaw Zaluski, a member who participated in the meeting, he also declared that he had never heard about Father Pielasinski from Father Sekowski. 114 He then wrote a memorandum to Adam Sapieha, the Bishop of Krakow. He explained in it that the Congregation of Marian Fathers had not ceased to exist. It had its approved constitutions and a Superior and so it didn’t need to be revived. As to the movement ini- tiated by Pietrzak, he declared that he would by no means desire to be an impediment in the noble strivings of good people if they are direct- ed by the Divine Spirit and if their movement were legitimized by the Church authorities. Concerned for his own Congregation, he pleaded with the Bishop to take an interest in those people, to look into their goals to find out why they didn’t want to join the legally existing Institute and, if he deemed it appropriate, to give legal form to their 112 J. Antonowicz wrote to the Congregation of the Religious: “[...] Rev. Wincenty Sekowski, candidate in Theology, once the Superior General of the Order and now the only Marian still alive.” (See Document 26). 113 Kalowski, Julian: Ocena zarzutow przeciwko legalnosci odnowy Zakonu Marianow [Evaluation of the charges that the Renewal of the Marian Institute was illegal], “Prawo Kanoniczne” [ Canon Law ] 21 (1978), Nos. 3-4, p. 85. 114 AGM, Litterae, Bronislaw Zaluski to Kazimierz Reklaitis, January 18, 1928.