913 the foundation of the house of recollection desire. I decided to construct here a “House of Recollection” with a chapel of the Immaculate Conception and of St. Michael the Archangel, so that I may adjust my laws to his Ordinances, since it indeed befits a Superior of hermits to behave properly, according to the Rule prescribed for them, so that everything among the hermits be adapted to my ideas regarding the House of Recollection, with the exception of certain matters, which seemed to me to surpass the limits of prudence. 26. I went, therefore, to Warsaw,268 and I first presented my request for the approbation of the cessation of Krajewski’s land. Next, I requested that the document, the so called Cride,269 be released, inasmuch as according to the law, I might enter into possession of this land properly — not through the window, but through the door — so that I might not bypass the laws of the Church, which are often observed regarding such buildings. If I wanted, on the other hand, to not observe those things which ought to be observed while acting to found the Congregation, I would already — in these two years270 — have both a few houses and many companions. But above all in my desires, although they were pious and salvific, I took precaution lest I consciously and freely undertake something against the accepted custom or prescription of the Church. Hence the Divine Majesty Himself will bless these matters begun by me: for easily I received the decree permitting the construction of the House of Recollection, while God Himself removed the difficulties, which otherwise pressed upon me.271 268 Father Papczyński went to Warsaw shortly after the visit of Bishop Święcicki (which took place in the Korabiew Hermitage on October 24, 1673). 269 The cessation of Krajewski’s land was legalized not on October 7 (as has been erroneously noted at the end of the copy of withdrawal document in the Protocollum Ordinis. Cf. Positio, p. 336, n. 2). The Cride document mentioned here is no longer extant, and we possess no copy of it. 270 The words “in these two years” refer to the years 1674-1675. Cf. Positio, pp. 351-352 (Doc. X, 5, intr., 3). 271 The editor of the Protocollum Ordinis attached to it two documents: a document stating the cessation of Krajewski’s land and the decree of the Warsaw Consistory authorizing the construction of the House of Recollection.
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