679 ukrzyżowany mówca INTRODUCTION 1. The Work, Its AuthOr, and the Circumstances of Its Creation Orator Crucifixus (OC) is a collection of sermons on the Passion of our Lord. Neither the title nor the authorship of this work gives reason for any doubt, because its first edition was printed through the efforts of its author, Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński, in 1670, by the royal print shop in Krakow, called Officina Schedeliana S.R.M. The front page states: Orator Cruci xus sive ultima septem verba Domini nostri Iesu Christi, totidem piis discursibus exposita per R.P. Ioannem Papczyński, Presbyterum Polonum, or, “The Crucified Orator or Seven Last Words of Our Lord Jesus Christ, explained in the same number of pious meditations by Rev. Fr. John Papczyński, a Polish priest.” It’s significant that Fr. Stanislaus did not provide his religious name, “Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary,” as he used to do elsewhere, but reverted instead to his baptismal name and wrote “John Papczyński, a Polish priest.”The reason was his personal situation at the time: He had left the Piarist Order in 1670, but the newOrder of Marian Fathers, the founding of which he had already declared, was still in the sphere of his projects. At that time, Fr. Stanislaus was in Krakow, subject to the authority of Andrzej Trzebicki, Bishop of Krakow, to whom Fr. Stanislaus devoted a brief dedication in gratitude for this bishop’s help. OC was probably ready for print much earlier, even before 1670 or during the time of the author’s membership in the Piarists; but his Superiors did not grant permission to print it. Also noteworthy is the fact that OC appears on the list of Fr. Papczyński’s written works submitted for examination to the Roman Congregation for Rites during his beatification process. The decree issued by this Congregation on July 15, 1775, affirmed that this work is in accordance with the teachings of the Church.
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