St Stan Illustrated Story

113 I n 1698, Fr. Papczynski attended the funeral of a certain nobleman by the name of karczewski at kolbiel, not far from New Jerusalem. There he met some seminarians of the Friars Minor who had been sent from Warsaw to help with the services. Among them was a theological student, James Wolski. Wolski and Fr. Stanislaus had never met before. The student was, therefore, utterly amazed when the Saint, meeting him in the parish rec- tory, clasped his head in his hands and whispered into his ear, “And you, my dear young man, will one day be the Provincial Superior of your Order.” “He said the same thing about me to my fellow students and com- panions,”Wolski later testified. “They laughed at me and, as a joke, kept calling me Fr. Provincial.” Twenty-one years later, Fr. JamesWolski was elected Provincial Superior of the Franciscan Friars Minor in Warsaw.