historical writings 874 The reason and purpose for writing this Apologia, i.e., to describe the four true reasons for his leaving the Piarists, are explained below in the introductory part of this writing. It is not clear whether Fr. Papczyński used any other source but his own memory to write this Apologia. The Apologia is of great value to us, because without it we would not have known about many of the details of Fr. Papczyński’s departure from the Piarist Order. Thanks to the Apologia, we know for sure that the witnesses of the informative process for the beatification of Fr. Stanislaus were wrong in claiming (in good faith) that he left the Piarists because he wanted to found the Marian Congregation, and that this was the reason he suffered persecution. We find no confirmation of this in the Apologia. It seems that in the manuscript of Fr. Papczyński, this writing has no title. In 1775, the promotor of faith spoke about it as the Apologia of the Servant of God and in 1937, Sidry gave such a title to this writing as well. In 1960, Navikevicius shortened this title to Apologia. To distinguish this Apologia from the other Apologia of Fr. Papczyński, namely from the Apologia pro summa paupertate,78 Fr. C. Krzyżanowski, MIC, extended the title to Apologia pro egressu ex Scholis Piis, and it is under this title that the work is presented here. However, due to practical reasons, in the introduction and footnotes it is referred to simply as the Apologia. The author’s manuscript of the Apologia no longer exists, nor the first copy of it made around 1705 in the Protocollum of the Marian Order. Today, the Apologia is known to us only from subsequent copies, of which only three independent copies have documentary value. One of them, namely the one that appears to have fewest copying errors (it is an official notarial copy), serves as the basis for the translation found here. The Apologia first appeared in print in 1960 as part of the dissertation of G. Navikevicius, MIC. The first critical edition of the 78 Or Apologia for the Utmost Poverty. Cf. § 35.
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