St Stan Illustrated Story

55 T he Bishop of Cracow, as the protector of the Saint, strongly protested against the forcible removal of Fr. Stanislaus without his knowledge or permission from a residence under his episcopal juris- diction. It may have been this protest that caused the Superior at Prie- widza to become apprehensive and, without even communicating with the Provincial Superior, he released Fr. Stanislaus. Whatever the rea- son, we know that he was released from his imprisonment at the monastery and, early in April 1670, was back in Cracow. There, some time after his return, his case was heard before the Ec- clesiastical Diocesan Tribunal and, on the strength of the evidence, the Auxiliary Bishop of Cracow, Michael Oborski, solemnly declared that there had been nothing to justify the imprisonment of Fr. Stanislaus since “he was and is entirely innocent.”