1141 introduction In this poem, composed of 13 open couplets (distiches of iambic meter used in antiquity, among others, by Horace), Fr. Papczyński celebrated the victory of Mary, who defeated Satan, called by the poem a “Stygian snake.” He evoked (referring to Gen 3:15) the image of Mary trampling the serpent’s head and narrated the story of the first people – Adam and Eve – who were poisoned by its venom. Mary, however, was impervious to the venom; she also avoided humanity’s universal fate – the consequences of original sin. The rules of classic logic were used to prove her Immaculate Conception: since Mary’s birth was the consequence, bearing the marks of truthfulness, which constitutes (similar to her supernaturally giving birth to God) the negation of the ordinary order of nature (nature ordinem contra), her Immaculate Conception is also to be recognized as the logical reason for this argument, which – as Fr. Papczyński stated – Dominic Kochanowski, whose surname alone (according to the Baroque concept) was a visible manifestation of the love of Mary, “rightly instructs in a learned book and beautifully proves it”. Robert Sawa
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