Servant of Mary new file

enced and wanted to share with his readers. He adapted the book “Morning Star” not only to the Marian rule but also, as he himself points out on the title page, to various groups of people, both religious and secular . The 46-page long introduction which he wrote is an invaluable contri- bution enabling one to become acquainted with the Polish understanding of Mary in the 18th century. The enthusi- asm of a zealous apostle and the propagator of a properly understood devotion to Mary Immaculate emanates from this introduction. The truth about the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary had not yet been proclaimed as a dogma of the faith, although it was the subject of reflec- tion for theologians and the object of veneration for many Christians; even so, many religious orders, among them the Order of Marians, were founded to defend and propa- gate it. During his stay in Rome from 1751 to 1753, Father Wyszy<ski attentively followed everything concerning the devotion to the Immaculate Conception. He suffered because of the spread of Jansenism which attacked the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In his “Diary” dated September 7, 1751, Father Wyszy<ski made a remark about a book which questioned the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a contemptible superstition. The book created many doubts so that even some of our Order gave in to this ridicule . Although Father Joannes a Luca Venetus thor- oughly refuted these accusations, the contrary opinion 61 THE SERVANT OF MARY IMMACULATE