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143 Marian Character that He had adopted her. 8 The truth about Mary’s Divine Motherhood is for the Venerable Servant of God the most important evidence of the Immaculate Conception. Yet, he seeks other arguments to justify this privilege. He made an attempt to justify the Immaculate Conception ex consequen- tibus, i.e., from the lack of consequences of original sin in the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which proves that she was never, not even for a moment, stained by it and thus, she was immaculately conceived. Mary was conceived without original sin because even her thoughts were free from evil; not even one of them was stained by a desire to sin. She crushed the head of the serpent with her foot and gave birth to her Son without any pain. Her body was not affected by decay but was glorified in heaven. All of this happened because Mary was free from original sin and no one should doubt this truth. 9 In order to show the greatness of the privilege of the Immaculate Conception as fully as possible and to honor the Blessed Mother who was endowed with it, Father Papczynski assumed the role of a theolo- gian as well as that of a poet and orator who proclaims Mary’s triumph. An opportunity to do so presented itself upon the publication of a book by D. Kochanowski entitled Novus Asserendae Immaculatae Conceptionis Deiparae Virginis Modus in 1669. Since, in Father Papczynski’s opinion, the book contained a new, convincing argument in support of the truth about the Immaculate Conception, he took the opportunity to have his lofty hymn entitled “Triumphus” included in the book. In this piece, he proclaims the triumph of the Immaculate Virgin who crushes the head of the writhing serpent with her foot. The serpent managed to poison our first parents with its venom but was unable to stain the Great Mother of God ever Virgin. All who are born fromAdam are born as sons of anger, but the sin which stained all mankind is far from the Virgin of Grace. She was conceived contrary to the order of nature so that she herself might conceive the Son of God. 10 This is the ideal which the Founder of the Marians puts before any- one who undertakes the labor of forming a perfect man, both in himself