Saint Stanislaus Papczynski — The Life and Writings

ConGReGaTIon foR THe CaUses of saInTs POzNAń CANONIzATION OF BLeSSeD STANISLAUS OF JeSUS AND MARy (SeCULAR NAMe: JOHN PAPCzyNSkI) FOUNDeR OF THe CONGReGATION OF MARIAN FATHeRS OF THe IMMACULATe CONCePTION OF THe B.V.M. (1631-1701) Decree regarding the Miracle Blessed Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary (secular name: John Papczynski) was born in the town of Podegrodzie in Poland on May 18, 1631. Having completed primary school, he attended the college of the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of Pious Schools in the town of Podoliniec, as well as [the college] of the Society of Jesus in Lviv and Rawa Ma- zowiecka. In 1654, he completed two years of philosophy. He entered the novitiate of the Piarists and then assumed the re- ligious name “Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary.” In the second year of novitiate, he began theological studies in Warsaw and made simple vows. He was ordained a priest in 1661. He stood out as a teacher of rhetoric, a preacher, and confessor. Among the penitents who came to him was even the Apostolic Nuncio of Poland, Antonio Pignatelli, who later was elected Supreme Pon- tiff with the name Innocent XII. He founded a new religious order, the Marian Clerics of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M., whose cult of the singular privilege [of her Immaculate Conception] the Marians promoted. Among the main objectives of the Congregation, he desired to include aiding the souls most