Introduction 21 The primary sources for this study were Saint Stanislaus Papczyński’s writings addressed to his confreres and closely dealing with the rise of the Congregation of Marian Fathers.5 It should be noted that all extant works of our Fr. Founder were recently released as a critical edition through the efforts of C. Krzyżanowski, MIC, and then translated into Polish by a group of people with A. Pakuła, MIC as the editor; this one-volume publication appeared in Warsaw in 2007, as Pisma zebrane. Among Saint Stanislaus’s works on the spirituality of the religious life, we shall mention Norma Vitae Religiosae Congregationi B. V. Mariae sine labe Conceptae Eremitarum Marianorum fi delibus defunctis praecipue Militibus et peste sublatis Suffragantium Proposita et ab Eminentissimo et Reverendissimo Domino Domino Leandro Cardinali Colloredo ex Commissione Sacrae Congregationis Regularium et Episcoporum Correcta Romae Anno Domini 1694 (critical Latin edition in: Norma Vitae et alia Scripta, Varsaviae 2001, pp. 11-64; Polish edition: Reguła życia, transl. by C. Krzyżanowski MIC, in: Bł. S. Papczyński, Pisma zebrane, Warszawa 2007, pp. 33-76); these are the first Marian laws establishing the main principles of life for the Marian Institute, adjusted to the eremitical status, binding the Marians in 1694. In addition, worth noting is: Inspectio cordis, Stanislai a Iesu Maria Congregationis Immaculatae Conceptionis Clericorum Recollectorum, ex Scholis Piis Praepositi – Recollectiones pro Dominicis et Festis totius anni et Menstruis exercitiis tumulturaria opera consutatae [1679-85] (critical Latin edition: Varsaviae 2000; Polish edition: Wejrzenie w głąb serca, transl. by 5 This work gives quotes from Norma vitae and the Statutes according to the chapters and points because those works are legal documents. Since the author refers to a concrete translation, he gives the respective versions in the list of abbreviations. Sometimes, the original Latin text was also needed; therefore, the list of abbreviations gives this version, as well. The author of the present work always quotes the Statutes in his own translation, since they exist in Latin only. It is similar in the case of the Regula decem beneplacitorum, because the Polish translation in Pisma zebrane does not conform to the text of 1723. Therefore, all of the quotes from the Regula are given in A. Pakuła’s translation. The quotes are referenced by page number, not by chapter and point (as was done for the Norma vitae and the Statutes) only because the 1723 text has no points, but only fairly lengthy chapters. When quoting from the Norma vitae, the author used the translation published in Pisma zebrane. However, sometimes his own translation and/or text in the original Latin also appear (note of the Editor).
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