839 introduction INTRODUCTION a. Source and Purpose of this Work Triumhus sine originali macula conceptae Magnae Virgini (TMV) is a devout poetic work. Father Stanislaus Papczyński, one of the main Polish immaculists, had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and devoutly defended her title of “Immaculately Conceived.” In 1663, he wrote an epigram in which he argued [the concept] of the Immaculate Conception “based on the consequences” (ex consequentibus). To support this position, he included the epigram in his book Prodrumus Reginae Artium. In September 1669, Fr. Stanislaus moved from Warsaw to the Piarist headquarters in Kazimierz near Krakow. There he began making efforts for the release of the fourth edition of his Prodrumus by the local printing house. At that very time, the print shop was printing for the second time the work of Dominic Korwin Kochanowski entitled Novus asserendae Immaculatae Conceptionis Deiparae Virginis modus.49 Father Papczyński had the opportunity to get acquainted with this book even before its publication. In 1670, on the occasion of his act of solemnly offering himself, as he cherished the hope of founding the “Marians of the Immaculate Conception,” Fr. Stanislaus clearly stated his position on the Immaculate Conception: “I confess that the Blessed Mother of God Mary has been conceived without original sin.” No wonder that the work, in which Kochanowski presented a new way of 49 The circumstances of the second edition of this book were explained on its title page: “For the first time, [this book] was written and published in Vienna, Austria, in 1666, by the Venerable Father Dominic Korwin Kochanowski, a Pole, General Lector of OFM Observ., Alumnus of the Lesser Poland Province. Now, after the author’s death, the book comes out again, enriched with numerous comments by Father Franciszek Korwin Kochanowski, the Deceased’s own brother.”
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