823 angelic doctor “He will reveal instruction in his teaching, and will glory in the law of the Lord’s covenant. Many will praise his understanding, and it will never be blotted out” — Sirach 39:8-9 To the most reverend Father in Christ, Fr. Albert Grabiecki, Teacher of Sacred Theology, Prior in the Convent of Warsaw, Vicar of the Mazovian Province of the Order of Preachers4 And of the entire Warsaw Congregation Franciscus Grzybowski5 [With] dutiful veneration I present to you, most reverend Father, and to your entire convent, the Angelic Doctor, he himself, who that man [Fr. Stanislaus] represented not long ago by the colors of his eloquence in your most frequent assembly, and that of many learned men, he of whom I boast and declare myself to be a student in Rhetoric.6 For I did not wish that voice, which sounds so pleasing in the ears of all hearers, to be only momentary and not eternal. 4 P.A. Grabiecki, O.P., Prior of the Dominican monastery in Warsaw from 1650 to 1653 and 1659 to 1664. Cf. Świętochowski, Robert, art. Grabiecki Wojciech: PSB VIII, 465. Cf. also: Sokołowski, Czesław, art. Grabiecki Wojciech: PEK XIII-XIV, 284. 5 It is to be noted that in 1699, Fr. Papczyński obtained two commendatory letters for the pontifical approval of his Marian Institute from Francis Grzybowski; cf. Positio, pp. 532-534. 6 This refers to Fr. Stanislaus Papczyński, who from 1663 to 1667 was “Magister Rhetorices” or “Magister Eloquentiae” in the Warsaw College of the Pious Schools; cf. Positio, pp. 60-62.
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