historical writings 884 Hungary, again under the guard of two soldiers. He ordered that I be held and imprisoned there,134 until I be freed by a letter from Fr. General, who already wanted to release me from the Congregation.135 He finally denounced me among all the houses, such that among the fathers of the Province who were favorable to me, he excited horrible enmity [toward me]. 21. At the end, I came to the Rector of the Warsaw house, Fr. Francis, who more than others was quite hostile toward me, as he was the author of the entire tragedy.136 This good father, made by force the Rector of the members of the Warsaw house,137 at the beginning appeared to love me,138 but when he ascertained that I was against some of his ideas,139 he began to manifest enmity toward me. He then did not permit me to join in the council meetings.140 He deceived, through deceptions, a priest, whose name I will not mention, and who — after harsh words —wanted 134 Father Opatowski, by sending Fr. Papczyński to Prievidza in Hungary (about 180 kilometers from Podoliniec), sought to move him to a house outside the jurisdiction of the Ordinary of Krakow. Father Papczyński was held there in the house prison from January 28 to March 22, 1670. Cf. Positio, pp. 159, 179180. 135 It is possible that the General, in response to Fr. Papczyński’s second request for dismissal from the Congregation (around October 15, 1669) in midNovember 1669, expressed his readiness to grant him release, but informed him at the same time about the negative result of the attempt to gain authorization from the Holy See. Cf. Positio, pp. 145-148. 136 Father Francis Haligowski of Jesus and Mary, Pole belonging to the Polish Province, was the Superior of Fr. Papczyński for the first time in 1665 and again in 1668-1669, and it seems that then their relationship deteriorated to such an extent that Fr. Papczyński had to recognize him as “the author of the entire tragedy” of his leaving the Piarists. In 1696, in his conversation with General Foci, “he pointed to Fr. Francis of Jesus and Mary as the reason for his withdrawal from the Order." Cf. Positio, p. 244; Kr., p. 322; Positio, p. 326. 137 Such an affirmattion should probably be understood in the sense that the election of Fr. Haligowski to the office of Rector of the Warsaw house (May 15, 1668) was not pleasing to the members of the house. Cf. Positio, p. 262, n. 57. 138 This refers to the perioed when Fr. Papczyński returned to Warsaw in May 1668 from his “Roman journey” and from Nikolsburg, and Haligowski arrived a week later as the new Rector of the Warsaw house. 139 Cf. §§ 22 and 47. 140 Evidently these were meetings that the Rector held acccording to his discretion with certain priests of the house, to discuss certain matters that were of great importance to the house. Cf. Positio, p. 262, n. 60.
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