953 second petition 2. Second Petition to the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Religious (August 22, 1692) Resumé: Rome, August 22, 16929 INTRODUCTION By sending the second petition, Fr. Papczyński resumed his efforts to obtain papal approval for his Congregation through its legal incorporation into the Order of Nuns of the Immaculate Conception (as a result of accepting its Rule). He initiated these efforts during his stay in Rome in 1691.10 Neither the original of this Petition nor any copy survived to this day; the date of its creation is also unknown. Its contents are known only from a resumé, i.e., a summary prepared in Rome for submission at the session of the Committee of Cardinals of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and Religious, which took place on August 22, 1692, (and which also dates the Petition). Unexpectedly, the Committee did not submit the matter along with its opinion to the Pope — as was customary — stopping only at making the following decision: Supplicet Sanctissimo, in other words, that Fr. Papczyński had to submit this petition directly to the Holy Father,11 apparently without realizing that Fr. Papczyński had already done so in the meantime — we do not know exactly when and for what reason — as can be seen from the next document (see below, No. 3). The above decision had been probably sent to Fr. Papczyński at once, but we have no documentary proof of that. 9 Original: New Jerusalem (?) 1692. 10 Cf. SH, n. 10. 11 Cf. Positio p. 515, which provides a possible explanation of this fact.
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