the crucified orator 682 so as to validate and illustrate the author’s conclusions. The text includes a large range of names of saintly Fathers of the Church, ecclesial writers, experts in the spiritual life, and hagiographers. Father Papczyński also resorted to secular authors, but “sparingly”: [These include] historians, chroniclers, and students of natural history. He evoked personages and events from Greek and Roman mythology and recalled acts of penance performed by contemporary champions of asceticism. The Baroque style, as well as numerous scriptural, patristic, and theological quotations, is brightened by the lively narration that flows as if from the author’s personal reflections, while various tropes and figures of speech make the account ever more illustrative. No reprints of this work by St. Stanislaus were produced from the time of its first publication in 1670 until the present day. For the first time, OC was retyped from an old print and reproduced by mimeograph in Rome, in 1959, for the purpose of examining Fr. Stanislaus writings during his beatification process. Next, in 1998, a critical edition of this short work was published in its original Latin in Warsaw through the efforts of Fr. Casimir Krzyżanowski, MIC. Ryszard Roman Piętka, MIC
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