881 apologia for his departure from the order of pious schools preacher;113 I was the most concerned about the improvement both of myself and of others. For at one time, I seemed to run after frivolous behavior114 with others, [yet] I strove to draw them back together with me to the established order of observing the holy Rule of religious life. 14. Because Fr. Wenceslaus bore this with vexation, since already he was reproaching me with malicious letters,115 as he was improperly directing them to Fr. General,116 then [doing the same] before King Casimir,117 the Apostolic Nuncio,118 and obstinately accusing me of I don’t know what, he still plotted intrigues against me.119 15. And so first of all, returning from my Roman journey120 to the Province, he indeed strove to expel me from it, since — not having shown me any documents confirming his office as Provincial — he ordered [me], while I was resting after my journey from Rome in Warsaw, that I had twenty-four hours to leave the house and just as many days to return to Germany from the Province. O good Jesus! The Germans and Moravians gorged121 themselves with the goods of the Province that had been provided for by 113 Father Papczyński functioned as a preacher in the Warsaw house from 1663-1667, and possibly again from 1668-1669. Cf. SH, p. 46, n. 61. 114 Cf. SH, p. 47, n. 62. 115 These letters are no longer extant. Father Wenceslaus Opatowski was elected to the office of Provincial in 1665, and moved from Warsaw to Podoliniec (from where he may have sent these letters), while Fr. Papczyński remained in Warsaw. 116 These letters are no longer extant. We know only of a letter sent from Fr. Wenceslaus Opatowski to Fr. General in 1667, after the visitation of the Warsaw house, in which Fr. Stanislaus is not spoken well of. Cf. SH, p. 47, n. 64. 117 John Casimir, King of Poland (1648-1668). 118 Galeazzo Marescotti, Apostilic Nuncio to Poland (1668-1670). Cf. Positio, p. 42, n. 1. 119 Evidently, Fr. Wenceslaus made such accusations in response to the intervention of the king and the nuncio, to whom Fr. Papczyński and his associates had gone for help against the Superiors. Cf. Positio, pp. 105, 118, 142, 306. 120 Father Papczyński returned from his “Roman journey” (1667-1668) (cf. §§ 3-6) to the Polish Province in May of 1668. 121 Cf. SH, p. 48, n. 69.
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