Saint Stanislaus Papczynski — The Life and Writings

‘PolanD Has WaITeD foR THIs MoMenT’ The following is an english translation of Polish President andrzej Duda’s speech following the Mass of Canonization for st. stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczynski: your eminence Cardinal Stanislaus Dziwisz; your excellencies, archbishops, and bishops; Monsignors and reverend fathers; Above all Superior General of the Marian Congregation Fr. Andrzej Pakuła. First, I would like to congratulate you on account of this great event for the Congregation of Marian Fathers. It is your Congregation that, for 300 years, has undertaken this great responsibility that your Founder would first be beatified and then be canonized. But this [canonization of the Marian Founder] is not just of fundamental importance to the religious community. It is also a matter of our country as a nation, because here I would like to remind you that in 1764 [63 years Documents and Homilies from His Canonization 187 AndrewMaczynski, MIC