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220 Reverend Wojciech Skóra, M.I.C., Postulator General BIOGRAPHY OF FATHER STANISLAUS PAPCZYŃSKI Rite of Beatification Licheń, September 16, 2007 The Venerable Servant of God, Stanislaus Papczyński was born on May 18, 1631 in Podegrodzie, in the Province of Sącz, in what was then the Diocese of Krakow. He died in Góra Kalwaria near Warsaw on September 17, 1701 in what was formerly the Diocese of Poznań. His life gives an unusual witness of God’s charity and wisdom, which he experienced many time, as he repeatedly mentioned during his long and difficult life. He discovered the love of God in a special way in Christ’s suffering. He used to call himself a sinner and an unworthy servant, finding in Christ, his hope for salvation. He wrote, “ I regret from the bottom of my heart and I wish to repent of my sins for the love of God, which I completely immerse in the redemptive wounds of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ” (First Testament). Experiencing God’s love inflamed the Venerable Servant of God with a desire to lead a life of evangelical perfection and at the age of 23, he entered a mon- astery of the Piarist Order. As a priest and a religious, demonstrating a spirit of prayer and mortification, he personally achieved a profound union with God and led many persons to perfection. He dedicated his book, The Mystical Temple of God, to the common Christian vocation to holiness, specifically reminding the lay faithful of this truth. Raised to venerate the Mother of God, Father Papczyński found in the mys- tery of Her Immaculate Conception what he felt to be the heart of Christianity: the Gift of Boundless Love to a human being, in the person of Jesus Christ, and given freely through the Trinity, accepted by Mary, as the first among believers, in unconditional love and obedience to God. He set his hopes for achieving the heavenly goods on the mystery, often crying out: May the Virgin Mary’s Immacu- late Conception be our refuge and protection . He saw the basics of the devotion