The Blue Scapular Prayer Book

21 the right to invest with the Blue Scapular—this time to the Superior General and to six other Marian Fathers in Poland. On May 5, 1753, before leaving for Portugal, the Venerable Servant of God obtained once more from the Superior General of the Theatines the privilege of spreading the Scapular of the Immaculate Conception, this time in the Kingdom of Portugal. More than 20 years later, the continuator of Fr. Wyszyński’s activity in Portugal, Fr. Alexis Fischer, approached by means of a letter the Theatine Fathers in Rome with the request for a renewal of the same privilege of investiture granted in 1753. His letter is dated January 26, 1776. Political upheavals of the first half of the 19 th century were undoubtedly the reason for the difficulties in communication with the Theatines in Rome regarding the further spreading of the Scapular by the Marian Fathers in Poland. Thus, it becomes understandable why on February 20, 1841, Fr. Jan Dziewulski petitioned the Holy See directly and asked for permission for the Marian Fathers to continue spreading the Blue Scapular. In the 19th century, three zealous Marian priests, noted for their intellectual and spiritual formation: Fathers Stanislaw Porzycki, Jerzy Naruszewicz, and Alexander Wilczyński,