examination of the heart 112 page of the existing copy: “productum et revisum iudicialiter” (“produced and court-verified”) and the official signature of the notary public Francis Thomas Groszkowski, followed by the date of verification. The manuscript consists of 188 pages, written on both sides; it was found in 1971 by Rev. H.D. Wojtyska.2 The manuscript is presently located at the Library of the Metropolitan Seminary in Lublin, under the signature Rkps 523 (i.e. Ms. 523). The manuscript’s front page supplies the following information: Inspectio Cordis Stanislai a Iesu Maria Congregationis Immaculatae Conceptionis Clericorum Recollectorum Ex Scholis Piis Praepositi Recollectiones pro Dominicis et Festis totius anni et menstruis exercitiis tumultuaria opera consutatae. In Domo Gorensi Scholarum Piarum extant aliae emendationes per authorem factae. [In English:] Examining the Depth of One’s Heart, by Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary from the Pious Schools, Superior of the Congregation of Clerics Recollect of the Immaculate Conception, meditations for Sundays and holy days of the whole year and for monthly retreats; works assembled hurriedly. Other corrections made by the author are at the House of the Pious Schools in Góra. Father Papczyński’s authorship of Inspectio Cordis is indisputable. The above inscription points to Fr. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyński, a former member of the Order of the Pious Schools (the Piarist Order), presently Superior of the Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of Clerics Recollect, the Marians. From the act of establishing the Congregation of Marian Fathers, issued by Bishop Stephen Wierzbowski in Góra Kalwaria in 1679, we know that by the power of this act, Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński was named the Congregation’s Superior (Praepositus 2 Cf. Ks. H.D. Wojtyska, Inspectio cordis, nieznane dzieło ojca Stanisława Papczyńskiego, in: Summarium, Sprawozdania Towarzystwa Naukowego KUL, No. 2 (22/1), for the year 1973, Lublin 1975, pp. 154-156.
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