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35 Introduction movement and designate its spiritual leader who would look over their activity, in particular so that they brought no harm to the Congregation of Marian Fathers. 115 It can be clearly seen that the Bishop of Krakow did not deem it appropriate to give canonical form to this movement. It was only after the death of Archbishop Matulewicz that Pietrzak approached Henryk Przezdziecki, the Bishop of Podlasie, with the request for permission to lead communal life in accordance with unreformed Marian constitu- tions in the former Marian monastery in Gozlin. On December 10, 1927, the Bishop of Podlasie approached Rome with this matter. 116 The Congregation of the Religious replied on April 25, 1928, explaining that “the transformed Marian Order is a legitimate continuation, although in a new form, of the former, legally identical Marian Order established in the seventeenth century.” As a result, the Congregation declared that the acceptance of Pietrzak and his comrades in 1913 to the former Marian Order was null and void because at that time the said Order did not exist as such, and it also declared that in the future they might not lead communal life in accordance with the old Marian con- stitutions which no longer had any legal power, and that they must not call themselves Marians. 117 Reacting to this response from the Congregation, on November 2, 1928, Bishop Przezdziecki established an organization modeled on Church brotherhoods, without any vows, without novitiate, under the following name: “Diocesan Association of Worshippers of the Immaculately Conceived Virgin, the Queen of Peace, the Helper of Souls in Purgatory, under the sponsorship of the said Mother of God and Saint Stanislaw B. and M. calling themselves Stanislavites, at the filial Church of St. John the Baptist in Janow in this Diocese.” 118 His 115 See Document 41. 116 See Document 42. 117 See Document 43. 118 Decree , November 2, 1928, “Widaomosci Diecezjalne Podlaskie” [Gazetteer of the Podlasie Diocese], 1928, No.12, pp. 348-349