925 letter to the order of friars minor receive it under the protection and immediate direction of Your Most Reverend Father General of the Order or his Vicar, adorning and imparting to it such privileges, indults, and indulgences as you might desire and are capable of doing in a more enduring manner. 3. In addition, our Congregation desires and earnestly requests that you would appoint from among your greatly God-fearing Congregation, a few men burning with zealous devotion to the Immaculate Conception, endowed with extraordinary wisdom, who could better examine, correct, and adapt our Rule of Life312 to the holy Order of the Immaculate Conception, as a few details have already been corrected by your previous Reverend Father’s Vicar,313 while retaining the habit, our goal of rescuing the souls of the deceased, and the free choice of our Superior, whom the Reverend Father General of your Seraphic Order or his Vicar would approve. 4. If all this were to be granted to us, we will endeavor with attentive zeal to obtain its gracious approval by the Most Holy Apostolic See.314 The most humble servants of your Most Reverend Fatherly Lords, The Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, Poles 312 Cf. This was Norma Vitae. Since no Marians were ever incorporated into the Order of the Immaculate Conception, this proposal was never carried out. It is important to note that this attempt to be incorporated into the Order of the Immaculate Conception is entirely distinct from the Marian’s later incorporation into the Franciscans under the Rule of the Ten Virtues. 313 This refers to Fr. Julian Chumillas, who was the Commissioner General of the Order of Friars Minor from June 9, 1685, to June 5, 1688. It is not known what corrections he made to the copy of Norma Vitae sent to him. Cf. Positio, p. 508, n. 7. 314 Because the Marians were not granted incorporation into the Order of the Immaculate Conception, Fr. Papczyński did not make efforts to have it approved by the Holy See. The major obstacle to incorporation appears to have been the difficulty of adapting the Rule of the nuns to a community of men. SH, p. 112, n. 14.
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