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37 Documents 122 Petrani, Aleksy: [An intervention in the discussion concerning the 19th and 20th century in the history of the Marian Fathers Congregation],“Summarium. Sprawozdania Towarzystwa Naukowego KUL, No. 2 (22/1) for 1973,” Lublin 1975, p. 175. 123 Matulewicz, Jerzy: Pisma wybrane [Selected Works]. Selected and edited by Rev. Jan Bukowicz and Tadeusz Gorski, Warsaw 1988, p. 152. were left intact. Similar opinion concerning Bishop Matulewicz‘s con- stitutions were held by Father Jan Roth and Father Cyryl van Terneuzen.” 122 They were the law of the Congregation until March 25, 1986. Archbishop Matulewicz regarded his work for the Congregation as his special mission in the Church. After experiences of holding various prominent offices, he confided to Rev. Buczys in a letter on November 3, 1925: “I have always been and still am convinced that my most important vocation is to serve the Marian Congregation, to devote all my strength to it and to organize it as appropriate. I believed and still believe this to be the voice of God and I am almost certain of it.” 123 N O . 1. V ISITATION O RDERS OF B ISHOP OF S EJNY K ONSTANTY L UBIENSKI FOR THE MONASTERY OF M ARIAN P RIESTS IN M ARIAMPOLE Mariampole, February 9, 1865 Konstanty Ireneusz duke Pomian Lubienski, 1 by God’s mercy and by the grace of the Holy See the Bishop of Sejny and Augustow, Delegate of the Holy See, […] a 1 Lubienski, Konstanty Ireneusz (1825-1869), from 1863 the Bishop of Sejny. The first of the Polish bishops who, in accordance with the czar’s ukase of October 27/November, 1864, had jurisdiction over the monastic orders. Later, he received this authority, together with other bishops, from the Pope. He died on his way to exile to which he was sentenced for his refusal to send a delegate to the government’s Roman Catholic College in St. Petersburg (PSB, XVIII, pp. 489-490). a List of persons arriving with the Bishop has been omitted.