the suffering christ 756 He illustrates his meditations with examples borrowed from daily life. Basing his teachings on the Scriptures and other recognized authorities, as well as skillfully using the principles of rhetoric that he knew well, Fr. Papczyński achieved the result that, in spite of the flowery Baroque language, his sermons and meditations are doctrinally sound and still are not boring, but alive, dynamic, and convincing. Since the first publication of this work by Fr. Stanislaus in 1690, no reprints were produced until the present day. For the first time, Christus Patiens was typeset from an old print and printed on a mimeograph in Rome (1959) for the purpose of the examination of Fr. Stanislaus’ writings for his beatification. Later, this short work was printed in its original Latin as a critical edition in Warsaw (1998) through the efforts of Fr. Casimir Krzyżanowski, MIC. Ryszard Roman Piętka, MIC
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