897 apologia for his departure from the order of pious schools since the Germans198 ruling over us were dearer to him than the Poles who bore the burden of the day and its heat [cf. Mt 20:12]; having detained them, he permitted me, the displeasing one, to depart with holy love.199 What did I accomplish? Yet again the order was given to incarcerate me.200 Therefore, considering minds so greatly agitated on my account, should I not have — persuaded by true love, for the sake of restoring tranquility, [and] of calming the sea201 — departed from the Congregation of Pious Schools? Fourth Cause: Impediments in Utilizing Natural Talents 50. May I be allowed at the end to quite unassumingly add what brought about or [at least] caused a quite annoying displeasure to many distinguished men. I entered the most holy Institute of Pious Schools, and I so accepted and fulfilled the works entrusted to me that, even in future times and for future generations, they would be desirable and useful. Thus, directed to teach rhetoric and exerting myself greatly in these rhetorical exercises for nearly nine or ten years,202 not without pain did I write many things. I also began to write a book, such that these matters would be of profit not only to students of rhetoric, but also to teachers. 51. With great effort and diligence, I wrote six volumes on the art of rhetoric, under the [common] title of The Queen of the Arts, employing excerpts both from older as well as newer masters of 198 Father Papczyński says this in reference to three Superiors: the Provincial Fr. Wenceslaus Opatowski (1665-1671), the Rector of the house in Rzeszów, Fr. Michał Kraus (1666-1671) and the Rector of the house in Podoliniec, Fr. Glicerius Neumann (1664-1673). 199 This was the second request of Fr. Papczyński for release from Piarists, sent to General Chiara probably around October 15, 1669. This letter is no longer extant, and its contents are not known. Cf. Positio, p. 147 (Doc. VI, intr. A, 2). 200 We have no documentary confirmation of this incarceration of Fr. Papczyński, or of an attempt made to incarcerate him. 201 This refers again to the analogy of Jonah 1:11-15. 202 Father Papczyński was a teacher of rhetoric (“magister rhetorices”) in Piarist colleges: Podoliniec (1658-1660), Rzeszów (1660-1662) and Warsaw (16631667; 1668-1669). Cf. Positio, pp. 58-62 (Doc. IV, intr. A, 1.), where his teaching activities are discussed in greater detail.
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