917 letter to fr. alexander armini, sp in the booklet Norma Vitae, which I sent to Your Fatherly Reverence, if in your commitment and charity you should desire to read it.285 In this tiny Congregation I professed my vows, according to the formula adjoined at the end of the first Chapter.286 6. And indeed, I did all of this as was foretold in a vision of our venerable Father, Joseph Calasanz of the Mother of God,287 who, at that time, restored me suddenly to good health when I was gravely ill. Such was it that from the house of my sister,288 about four hours after that vision, I set out on a very long journey and traversed about forty German miles frommy father’s house to the hermitage289 — both healthy and sound. I already revealed this to certain of my spiritual fathers, as well as those from the Institute of the Society of Jesus, and now I manifest it to Your Fatherly Reverence at the command of my confessor, such that I not hide this grace I received under a bushel basket. 7. The goal of this, my letter, is the following: that Your Fatherly Reverence, for my interior tranquility, stability, and salvation of my soul, having read (which I humbly ask you to do) this booklet of our Norma Vitae, would deign, as soon as possible, to clearly present to me your conviction, opinion, and will. Should I, as I swore, remain in this canonical status until the end of my life, as I belong to this [Congregation] now through this profession of mine (having already been released externally from the Institute of Pious Schools on the authority of the papal brief and having attained external release from the oath, etc.), for the glory of God, for the honor of the Virgin conceived without sin, for aid285 This purpose of the Marian Congregation is clearly expressed in the document of erection (cf. Positio, p. 395: Doc. XI, 4, § 2) and in the first chaper of Norma Vitae: De fine et admissione, § 2. Cf. Positio, p. 463, Fr. Papczyński sent Fr. Armini a copy of Norma Vitae, which was first printed in 1687. 286 Cf. SH, p. 101, n. 27 287 The founder of the Piarist Order, who died in 1648. 288 The vision of St. Joseph Calasanz probably took place in Podegrodzie in 1674, because in that year, Fr. Papczyński went to Krakow for the printing of Templum Dei Mysticum, but he also went to Podegrodzie to execute the will of John Papczyński. 289 About a distance of 300 kilometers traveled on foot fromPodegrodzie to the Korabiew Forest.
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