St Stan Illustrated Story

69 I t now became necessary to organize some kind of “community life” with these hermits. With this in mind, he obtained per- mission from Bishop Wierzbowski to make a month’s retreat at the hermitage, and from the Apostolic Nuncio, to celebrate Mass in the private chapel which krajewski had begun to build on the site. The day of Fr. Stanislaus’s departure from the karski court finally dawned. The family was grieved to see him set off. They fully realized that he was not just “going away” for a while but that a dear friend and saintly priest was leaving them for good. Their sorrow was some- what assuaged by the knowledge that God was calling their chaplain to a far more important task and that he had no choice but to be faithful to his God-given vocation. The Saint arrived at the hermitage on September 30, 1673. kra- jewski was not there, and the two remaining “hermits” helped him to move into his new quarters. As he entered his “cell,” Fr. Stanislaus commended himself humbly and wholeheartedly to the Blessed Mother of God. To her maternal hands he entrusted the entire task of founding, there in that isolated spot, the Congregation that was to be dedicated to her Immaculate Conception.