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After some time, however, Father Wyszy<ski managed to make contact with the Pope and Cardinal Colonna. He submitted a letter to the Holy Father asking him for a place to settle in Rome. At the same time, Father Casimir asked Cardinal Colonna for his support in purchasing the Church of St. Bibiana. The church belonged to the Chapter of the Blessed Mother Major Basilica, and the cardinal was a member of this chapter. He found an attorney, Peter Pruski, who agreed to negotiate with the chapter on his behalf. He also asked for the help of Father Pepe, a Jesuit, who was very influential in the Vatican. All of these efforts turned out to be futile. At the beginning of November, 1751, Father Wyszy<ski was informed that the Chapter of the Blessed Mother Major would not sell the Church of St. Bibiana. The Procurator General of the Marians did not give up, however. He turned his attention to the Church of Santa Maria in Dominica or Navicella located just out- side the city. This church was very much to his liking. In his “Record of the Activities” he presented his arguments as to why the Marians should try to obtain this place. It is a church dedicated to the Blessed Mother. There is a mosaic there, that can be found nowhere else in the world, depicting the apostles dressed all in white, the color of the Marian habit. He learned from Brother Gianbattista, a Franciscan whom he had befriended, that the church belonged to the Basilian monks, who were having difficulties maintaining it because their Eastern Rite was foreign to the local people. With the permission Procurator General of the Order in Rome 42