The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

47 Documents 1 A sum of money. 2 Petition of several thousand faithful from Mariampole addressed in 1906 to Prime Minister Witte: letter of the Sejny Diocesan Administrator Jozef Antonowicz to the Governor Stremouchow of Suwalki, dated 8/21 March, 1906; a letter from the Marians to the Sejny Administrator of August 31, 1907; letter from the Sejny Administrator to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of September 7, 1907 (Totoraitis, pp. 51-53). 3 Bulat (Bulota), Andrzej (1872-1941), attorney representing the district of Suwalki in the Duma from 1907 to 1912. He was a member of the Trudoviki party (EL, V, pp. 112-113). right-minded people is itself a great happiness to me so that I can expect a grand future. Please assert to your colleagues who share such a good and holy wish to join our Congregation my gratitude and joy at this enterprise. I implore you very kindly to encourage and persuade them to sus- tain those virtuous intentions as much as possible. As to admittance to our Congregation, please don’t doubt it for a moment. Everyone is welcome, especially those who cherish the will to sustain and revive this unique Congregation with such sacrifice and avocation. In case of my death, I transfer all privileges and rights to the Honorable Professor which especially today can be used for the pur- pose of securing approval and acknowledgement in the Holy See. In my desk there are documents issued from Rome acknowledging and confirming this Congregation. I will even leave a certain quantum 1 to which no one has or can have a claim, to get things started. All requests that have been filed in the Ministry for renewing our monastery, namely the most recent one by intermediary of His Eminence the Diocesan Administrator, are in St. Petersburg 2 and the copy is with Mr. Bulat, 3 a deputy from the Mariampole district who recently came to see me and promised to send it to me as the basis for further petitions, but I haven’t received it yet and in the meantime I cannot start anything. I believe I’ll receive it soon. For the time being, I am not sending the Monastic Rule and con- stitutions. I don’t think it’s timely. I’ll send them soon.