569 the mystical temple of god INTRODUCTION The Work, its Author, and Circumstances of its Creation Templum Dei Mysticum (TDM) is a work on asceticism. Its full Latin title reads: Templum Dei Mysticum quod in Homine Christiano demonstravit R. P. Stanislaus a Iesu Maria Presbyter Polonus. This work, which took Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński some years to complete, was printed in Krakow in 1675 at the Shedel’s print shop. Reprints appeared in 1741 and 1747 through the efforts of the Servant of God Casimir Wyszyński. The critical edition was prepared by Fr. Casimir Krzyżanowski, MIC, in 1998. There is no doubt as to the authenticity of the title and authorship, since the book’s first release was finalized through the personal efforts of its author and the front page reads: Templum Dei Mysticum, quod in Homine Christiano demonstravit R.P. Stanislaus a Iesu Maria Presbyter Polonus, opusculum cuivis hominum statui maxime proficuum, et ad Sermones Dedicationis Ecclesiae summopere accomodatum. Prodit Cracoviae Typis Schedelianis, A.D. 1675. As we can see, the author adhered to the custom of giving only his religious name of “Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary,” which he continued to use in the Marian Order that he had founded. However, instead of Scholarum Piarum, he added Presbyter Polonus, “a Polish priest.” The year TDM’s first edition was released marked two years since ecclesiastical approval of the Institute of the Marian Fathers in the Korabiew Forest granted by Bishop Jacek Święcicki, to whom Father Papczyński dedicated TDM as a token of thanksgiving. Father Stanislaus’s authorship of this book was also confirmed by an official act: on May 29, 1769, the archivist Fr. D. Kisieliński submitted TDM — together with Fr. Papczyński’s other writings — to the Roman Congregation of Rites to be examined by theologians for the process of his beati-
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