The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

The Renewal of the Marian Order in 1909-1910 40 1 Czesnas, Jerzy (1835-1892), a native of the village of Vaitiskiai in the Mariampole parish. He joined the Marians in 1855. After graduating from the Theological Academy in Warsaw, he became the Prefect of the Mariampole High School in 1862. At the age of 30, by recommendation of Bishop K. Lubienski, he was elected Superior of the Mariampole monastery. He held this office until his death (EAM, p. 7). N O . 2 A PPROVAL OF F ATHER J ERZY C ZESNAS AS THE S UPERIOR OF THE M ARIAMPOLE MONASTERY BY THE B ISHOP OF S EJNY , K. L UBIENSKI Mariampole, February 13, 1865 Konstanty Ireneusz duke Pomian Lubienski, by God’s mercy and by the grace of the Holy See the Bishop of Sejny and Augustow, Delegate of the Holy See, To the Most Reverend in Christ Jerzy Czesnas 1 of the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, canonically elected as the Superior of the Mariampole monastery, beloved by Us in Christ, greetings in the name of the Lord. For the sake of proper fulfillment of the duty we have assumed as the Delegate of the Holy See toward the Congregation of Marian Fathers and in order to assure, inasmuch as possible in the face of God both the spiritual and the temporal well-being of said Congregation as + Konstanty Ireneusz the Bishop of Sejny Delegate of the Holy See Jerzy Katyll, Delegated Visitator Andrzej Marmo, Honorific Canon of Samogitia Assessor of the Consistory General in Sejny Jan Prusalajtys, Secretary of the General Visitation AGM, IG, Documenta Historica Generalia No. 5, fasciculus 11, pp. 11-12, copy, in Latin, No. 71 .