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journey should be supplied with letters of recommendation. In December of 1737, Father Casimir Wyszy<ski addressed a letter to all of his subordinates. He wrote in it that God chose him in spite of his unworthiness and placed on him the duty of shepherding. He accepted this office to serve the Lord and to prepare the flock left in his care for the coming of the Lord. Following the example of St. John the Baptist, he called upon the Marians to make the pathways straight and to prepare new roads. Father Casimir realized that the religious life makes sense only when those in religious vows steadfastly follow the road of the evangelical counsels as presented by the statutes of the order. Therefore, his first and most impor- tant concern was to lay strong foundations for the spiritual life and to encourage perfection in the religious life. He realized that he would not have much of an effect upon the older Marians who had given in to the improper influences of the times during the “Rostk[w Dispersion”. He put all his hopes in the formation of the younger Marians and watched over the proper upbringing of the novices with an even greater zeal. He strongly recommended that all the Marians imitate the Blessed Virgin Mary and Father Stanislaus Papczy<ski, the Founder of the Marians. While he lived in Rome from 1731 to 1733, he translated a treaty titled “De imitatione Mariae Virginis” ]On the Imitation of the Virgin Mary\ written by a Spanish Jesuit, Francis Arias. In 1749, he The Steadfast Fulfillment of the Marian Vocation 22