St Stan Illustrated Story

125 F ather Papczynski was buried in New Jerusalem (known today as “Calvary Hill” – Gora kalwaria) in the little church of the Cenacle. Four years after his burial the grave was reopened. “It is amazing,” writes Fr. Leporini, who was apparently present at the time, “that the coffin, which had been buried in wet soil, had decayed completely, but the body [...] and habit were quite undamaged.” In time, however, the moisture that seeped into the foundations of the Cenacle from the marshy land on which it had been built caused the body to decay. In 1740, Fr. Casimir Wyszynski had the bones dug up and put in a new coffin. Around the year 1766, this coffin was en- closed in a brick tomb or sepulcher on the left or gospel side of the high altar. The memory of the Saint continued to be revered by the faithful. Many graces were attributed to his intercession, and his tomb at the Cenacle became a place of pilgrimage. So it is today, for his reputation for sanctity has never died out. For various reasons, Fr. Stanislaus Papczynski’s beatification process, started in 1767, was interrupted in 1775. The political situation in Poland