863 letter to fr. cosmas chiara, sp moving to the state of diocesan priests56 (authorizations for the delegates came to the houses of the Polish Province at the end of November 1670). I ask for your blessing, Reverend Father in Christ, My Most Venerable Father. Because, as it was brought to my attention, the Holy Father gave Your Reverend Father the authority of releasing from simple vows and the oath of perseverance (although we presume, and we already believed, that these were removed together with the first brief of Alexander VII57) of those who did not intend to profess solemn vows;58 therefore, I humbly ask Your Fatherly Excellence, that you would grant this release to me, possessing already — in accord with the the apostolic decree — an adequate livelihood.59 I again earnestly beseech and entrust myself to Your holy prayers. Krakow, November 22, 1670. To Your Fatherly Reverence, The most humble servant Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, (handwritten) [On the back:] To the Reverend Father, Fr. Cosmas of Jesus and Mary, my most Venerable Superior General of the Fathers of the Poor of the Order of the Mother of God of Pious Schools. To Rome 56 Cf. Positio, pp. 190-191. 57 This belief of his and of his two companions, clerics seeking exemption from the Piarists, was probably based on an incorrect interpretation of the declaration given by the Pope on August 5, 1670. Cf. Positio, pp. 189-190. 58 This power was given to Fr. Cosmas Chiara by Clement X in the brief Cum felicis recordationis, on October 18, 1670. 59 Regarding what is meant by this “adequate livelihood,” cf: Positio, p. 209, no. 3.
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