appendix 954 This second Petition (in its resumé) is taken from Positio,12 while the introductory note was translated from the Polish edition of St. Stanislaus’ Pisma Zebrane [Collected Works]. [Outside:] To the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Religious on behalf of Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, Superior of the Congregation under the title of the Marian Clerics of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Kingdom of Poland. [August 22, 1692] [Inside:] Your Eminences were recently presented with a letter of petition on behalf of the petitioner Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, the unworthy Superior of the religious Congregation under the title of the Marian Clerics of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who assist the dead, and [who were] canonically founded in the Kingdom of Poland. He asked for the following things, namely: i. That the vows of the same Congregation are not dispensable, except by the Holy See in a most grave case and at the request of the Superior of the same Congregation. ii. That those who have been dispensed from the aforementioned vows by some theologians have a duty to return to the said Congregation, otherwise they are to be dealt with as apostates. iii. That under the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae, even the Superiors themselves of the said Congregation, during their time [of office], are prevented from dispensing or absolving anyone from such vows, as was more 12 Cf. Positio, pp. 516-517.
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