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230 The Spirituality of the Marians The spirituality of the Marians was shaped by the religious and social situ- ation in Poland in the 17th century, and partly as a reaction to it. The positive influence of the Marian movement with its related ideas of Marian servitude, the Immaculate Conception privilege, and the Christological trend with the accent on the Passion, stood in contrast with the negative effects of the continuous wars of that period, social processes (progressive immorality of social life, drunk- enness, the question of the ‘liberum veto’ , neglect in the pastoral care of ‘the simple folk’)- all this brought about the concept of a new religious community, as initiated by Fr. S. Papczyński in 1670. Discerning the signs of the times, he col- lected and organized in full, the fundamental ideas of his “ Norma vitae ” which he based on the Scriptures and modelled on St. Augustine’s ‘ Norma vitae ’ (“Reguła życia”, Lublin – Warszawa 1996), and presented them in the form of religious statutes. In these, he separated in a special manner the Chapter “De charitate” (O miłości”), recognizing God’s love as the essence and fundamental means of achieving the goals of spiritual love, embracing all aspects of Marian love (‘om- nia apud vos in charitate fiant, NV, II 1.). Fr. Papczyński, in his capacity as the religious law-giver, and in his writings comprised the fundamental dimensions of Marian spirituality: • Trinitarian - with a strong accent on imitation (‘sequela’) and on the near and loving presence of Christ – God-Man, suffering for the sinner and for his salvation, and also for man becoming like Him (Orator crucifixus, Krakov 1670, Christus patiensWarszawa 1690); • Marian/Rooted in the Immaculate Conception - placing Mary’s Immacu- late Conception – Bogurodzica , ( Deipara, Dei Mater ) as a singular Patroness and the life example for the Marians (imitatio Mariae). Her veneration should be propagated as the particular aim of the new community ‘ Norma vitae ’ (Warszawa 1687). • Eschatological - referring to the prayers for the dead victims of wars, pes- tilence and for those unprepared for death, and related to it, the constant memory of the last things; • Apostolic - commanding instruction of the ‘simple folk’ and the religious- ly neglected in the truths of faith, their formation, and leading to the evangelical sanctity ( Templum Dei mysticum , Krakov1675 in which Fr. Papczyński expound- ed the comprehensive concept of sanctity of the lay people). This religious law- giver of the Congregation of Marians deepened the elements of spirituality also in his other writings, especially in his manuscript Inspectio cordis (critical edition, Roma 2000, in which he presented meditations for Sundays, feasts, weekdays and for other various themes. In his Prodromus reginae artium , (Warsaw, 1663) he also included Marian homilies alongside a criticism of inequality and social