935 second testament most unfairly deprived of my first vocation. Before God, I forgive all those who have caused this. 3. Having been dispensed from the oath of perseverance in the Congregation of Pious Schools by the authority of the brief of Clement X,343 having rejected the ecclesiastical benefices and prelatures which were offered me by two of my patron bishops (Trzebicki of Krakow344 and Gembicki of Płock), by divine inspiration, on the counsel of the most distinguished theologians and with the consent of the episcopal sees of Krakow and Poznań, I assumed the white habit in honor of the Immaculate Conception of the Most B.V.M., and, [dressed] in it, presented myself to express my obedience and submission without delay to the Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Lord Archbishop Ranucci, the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland. I received [his] blessing as well as [his] praise and approval for my proposal of founding this tiny Congregation. 4. I pass over other matters in silence, because they are adequately expressed in the authentic documents regarding the erection [of the Congregation]. Rather, I most humbly turn with the publican to beseech the Divine Majesty to deign, by His mercy, on account of the merits of my Lord, Jesus Christ and of the most Blessed Virgin Mary and of all the Saints, to forgive me all of my sins and the punishment due to them. 5. As its unworthy Superior, I most devoutly entrust this tiny Congregation forever to my Lord, Jesus Christ, and to the Most elect Virgin, His Mother Mary, as the true and only Founders, Directors, Protectors and Patrons of this tiny Congregation of the Immaculate Conception, Helper of the Deceased. 6. To my companions and — if it is proper to say, to my sons — I greatly recommend love of God and neighbor, zeal in [living] the Catholic faith, honor, respect and obedience to the most holy 343 The was the brief Cum felicis recordationis from October 18, 1670. 344 Father Papczyński probably at the beginning of 1671, received from Bishop Trzebicki the benefice (beneficium) of the chaplain of the Archconfraternity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, he renounced this function, moving to the Diocese of Poznań, as he saw no possibility of implementing his plan to establish the Marian Congregation in the Diocese of Krakow.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjI2Mw==