appendix 950 dates the Petition). Before making any decision on this matter, the Committee resolved to send this request to the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland pro informatione et voto (for obtaining information and opinion). This Petition was not included in the critical edition of Fr. Papczyński’s historical writings (SH), because its version available today cannot be, strictly speaking, considered as Fr. Papczyński’s own letter since it is a document written or edited in Rome for the purpose of submitting the petition contained in the original letter, and as such it does not quote the said letter literally and wholly. However, some parts of the original letter — as well as of the two following letters — give the impression of citing the petitioner’s words (having changed, however, the first person to the third: instead of “I,” it reads “he”). This document contains neither the place nor date of its creation. The translation of the Latin text of this Petition (as a resumé) appearing here was taken from Positio,2 while the introduction was translated from the Polish edition of St. Stanislaus’ Pisma Zebrane [Collected Works]. Casimir Krzyżanowski, MIC3 [Outside:] To the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Religious, on behalf of Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, Superior of the Congregation of Marian Clerics of the [Immaculate] Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of Poland. [June 20, 1692] [Inside:] 2 Cf. Positio pp. 514-515. 3 All the subsequent introductions in Appendix were also prepared by Fr. Casimir Krzyżanowski, MIC.
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