The Blue Scapular Prayer Book

125 Immaculate Conception that can be found in the existing documents dates back to June 26, 1734. It speaks of the confraternity at the Marian church in Puszcza Mariańska. From that time, the Confraternities of the Immaculate Conception arose purposefully at each of the Marian cloisters as well as in other churches at which the Marians assisted with pastoral ministry. This is witnessed to by documents from 1888, regarding the deanery in Mariampole, Lithuania, where a Marian cloister was located. We read that a Confraternity of the Scapular of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. existed at each of the 15 churches of the deanery where Marians supported local pastors. The Theatine Fathers repeatedly renewed the privilege of investing with the Scapular granted once to the Marians. The Renovator and Reformer of the Marian Order, Blessed Archbishop George Matulaitis-Matulewicz, also asked the Theatines in Rome for this privilege, which was granted to him on December 1, 1911. On June 3, 1992, Fr. Donald Petraitis, MIC, then the Superior General of the Marians, obtained from the General Superior of the Theatine Order a perpetual permission for himself and his successors to bless and confer the Scapular of the Immaculate Conception of