The Marians and “The Rule of the Ten Virtues” The first legislator of the Marian Order was its founder, Saint Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczyƒski. Planning a new religious family, in 1671-1673 he prepared the first Marian laws entitl ed The Rule of Life (Norma Vitæ). On Oct. 24, 1673, during his visitation of the Marian hermitage in Puszcza Korabiewska, Bishop Stanislaus Jacek Âwi´cicki, Archdeacon and Warsaw Official, gave his approval to this Rule to be used by Fr. Stanislaus and his first companions. In 1690, Saint Stanislaus, accompanied by Sub-deacon Joachim of St. Ann Koz∏owski, went to Rome to seek the ratification of his Order upon the Constitutions of his authorship called Norma Vitæ. The death of Pope Alexander VIII (1689-1691), and Fr. Papczyƒski’s personal health problems forced the Marian Founder to return to Poland without attaining his goal. In 1691-1694, he made attempts to obtain for the Marians the Rule of the Conceptionist Sisters. His efforts failed because the Rule of the Spanish nuns was not adopted for a male religious Order. At that point the holy Marian Founder went back to his original plans. In the summer of 1698, he convoked a General Chapter, which elected Fr. Joachim of St. Ann Koz∏owski the Procurator General and dispatched him to Rome to seek anew the ratification of the Marian Order upon 25
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