937 second testament [Korabiew] Hermitage349 and the Cenacle of the Lord350 to those fathers and brothers who bound themselves in their consciences to never leave these houses until death.351 Father Joachim of St. Ann, elected as my coadjutor,352 by permission of the Most Illustrious and Most Reverend Lord [Bishop] Administrator,353 I declare to be [my] successor as well,354 obliging his conscience, by the severe judgment of God, to be as strict as possible in ensuring that the religious Rule imprinted by God be observed. But as he is now abroad, I therefore entrust the direction of this tiny Congregation to my Assistants: to Fr. Joseph of All Saints and to Fr. Cipriano of St. Stanislaus. I also command, in the Name of God, that all the fathers and brothers be obedient to them in the Lord and for the Lord. 11. Mindful of the vow of poverty, I ought not to command anything as regards the other matters, because while many things often do not turn out as they ought, so by the divine will I distribute unspecified sums [of money] in the Decree of the Warsaw Consistory in this manner: a thousand florins inscribed for me in the Czersk acts as a simple debt by the Distinguished Lady Theophila from Windiki Lasocka, wife of the Łomża cupbearer, and also the one thousand, five hundred [florins deposited] with the Distinguished Lord Constantine Lasocki, I inscribed to the Cenacle of the Lord and to my [confreres] here, serving God (and not anyone else), particularly to Frs. Joseph and Cyrpian, under the condition, that on account of the annual interest, they and 349 This was the first Marian foundation (1673) in the Korabiew Forest. 350 This was the second Marian foundation (1677) in New Jerusalem (Góra). 351 Evidently the Marians assumed such an obligation, because on March 8, 1697, Bishop Nicholas Popławski, an official from Warsaw, ordered them to do so. “Qui perpetuam stabilitatem loci iurare debebunt” (cf. Positio, p. 442: Doc. XI, 13, §13). Cf. Positio, p. 496, n. 27. 352 Fr. Joachim of St. Ann was elected coadjutor of Fr. Papczyński at the General Chapter of the Marians in 1698 (sometime after March 11, 1698, and before going to Rome that fall). 353 This was Bishop Jerome Wierzbowski, the suffragan of Poznań (16821712), who, after the death of the Ordinary Bishop John Stanislaus Witwicki, was the administrator of the Poznań diocese from March 11, 1698, to May 18, 1699. 354 It should be noted that as early as 1695, Kozłowski was referred to as the successor of Fr. Papczyński. Cf. above, HW, p. 927, n. 12, § 3.
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