84 charism. The specifi cs of this charism are depicted by the titles, which the tradition assigned to Blessed Stanislaus. Advocate of the Deceased and Servant of the Dying We will give succinct defi nitions here of the service and the spiritual uniqueness of the Marian Founder. Two titles have been used to this extent: Advocate of the Deceased and Servant of the Dying. Advocate of the Deceased For three centuries, numerous works of art presented Blessed Stanislaus as the advocate of the Poor Souls in Purgatory and as a chaplain remaining at the side of the dying. These works are legendary portraits, portraits conveying an ideological program, copperplate engravings, murals, stained glass windows, and prints from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.30 There are many pictures among the works of art dedicated to Blessed Papczyński. The ones belonging to the type of a legendary portrait usually have in their bottom part a cartouche or a scroll containing biographical data. They speak of Fr. Papczyński as the founder of a congregation “assisting the Poor Souls in Purgatory.” There are fi ve pictures containing such texts: three of them are from the 18th, and two—from the 19th centuries. As examples, let’s give the pictures of Fr. Stanislaus located in Skórzec, Puszcza Mariańska, and Marijampole. Along with the portraits of Blessed Papczyński, we have topical paintings that convey a so-called ideological program (or a message) of the main personage. Eleven paintings have in the background scenes and motifs, which explain not so much the biography as the main ideas that enlivened the Founder: the devotion to the Mother of God and intercession for the Poor Souls in Purgatory, above all.31 30 J. Pietrusiński, Sługa Boży o. Stanisław Papczyński w wizerunkach malarskich oraz pomniki związane z miejscami jego urodzin i śmierci. (Collection of Photostats with typeset description in possession of the Archives of the Marian Fathers in Warsaw-Stegny), Warsaw, 1963. The same thing appeared in “Immaculata” no. 12 (505) 2006, pp. 19-31, under a different title and date of March 15, 1964.—B. Konobrodzka, Obrazy z kościoła parafi alnego pod wezwaniem Nawrócenia św. Pawła w Skórcu (k. Siedlec), “Immaculata” 1971, no. 81/82, pp. 21-22.—To the number of 34 has been also added the image from St. Paul’s Church in Lublin, painted in 1950 by Adam Demont, an Evangelical.—During the preparations to the beatifi cation new images were created (one—by Andrzej Rzepkowski from Lublin), which we will omit. 31 To this group belong the following pictures with the “motif” of Purgatory: – Advocate of the Poor Souls in Purgatory: mid-18th century (approx. 1740), copperplate, Library of
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