historical writings 918 ing the deceased deprived of the help of prayers and reparatory acts, or should I return to my first Institute of the Mother of God, which I particularly cherished, and which I [still] love and honor. What do some of our members of the Institute of Pious Schools advise me [to do]? 8. My Reverend Father, I did not maliciously or heedlessly depart from the Institute of Pious Schools; rather, compelled by the most severe persecutions, I consented to the apostolic indult.290 I departed and retired to a wilderness, and, by divine dispensation, I entered my present canonical status. I am ready to persevere in it, as I swore, and I am ready to return to the order of Pious Schools, if that appears to Your Fatherly Reverence to be more expedient, more perfect, and more profitable for me. For this reason, I have presented the entire matter such that, before the tribunal of my conscience, I would not have done differently. Your concern, Reverend Father, is to recommend what you decide in the Lord; my [concern] is to most humbly execute [that decision] for the Lord Jesus. 9. In the meantime, I kiss your hands that have always been friendly to me, and I embrace your kind feet. From my small eremitic cloister of the Lord’s Cenacle in New Jerusalem, March 23, 1688. The most submissive servant of your Fatherly Reverence Stanislaus of J[esus] Mary The unworthy Superior of the Fathers Recollect of the I[mmaculate] C[onception] (handwritten) [A marginal note follows:] 290 Cf. above, HW, pp. 875-889, n. 6, §§ 1-33; Positio, pp. 86-143, 151-188, 252276. Father Papczyński is probably talking here about the brief Cum felicis recordationis of Clement X from October 18, 1670.
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