The Renewal of the Order redone 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface ......................................................................................................1 List of Abbreviations ...............................................................................5 Introduction ..............................................................................................7 Abolition and an attempt to renew the Order legally.........................8 Beginnings of the reform of the Congregation of Marian Fathers ........................................................................................13 Approval of the constitutions and of the reformed Congregation..............................................................................21 The growth of the Congregation under the leadership of Rev. Jerzy Matulewicz ..........................................................29 Documents No. 1. Visitation Orders of Bishop of Sejny Konstanty Lubienski for the monastery of Marian Priests in Mariampole ................37 No. 2. Approval of Father Jerzy Czesnas as the Superior of the Mariampole monastery by the Bishop of Sejny, K. Lubienski...............................................................................40 No. 3. Request by the Mariampole Marians to the Bishop of Sejny [Piotr Wierzbowski] to approve Father Wincenty Sekowski as their Superior ........................................................42 No. 4. Request by Rev. Jerzy Matulewicz to General Wincenty Sekowski for admission to the Order together with his friends...........................................................................43 No. 5. Letter from Father Wincenty Sekowski to J. Matulewicz expressing joy because of the candidates applying to the Order...........................................................................................46 No. 6. Letter of Rev. J. Matulewicz to Father W. Sekowski concerning the efforts to renew the Mariampole monastery ...48