1153 secreta conscientiae list his name is written as: “Joannes Papczyński polonus Syntaxista”)8. In mid-May of the year 1650, the college closed due to an approaching plague and Papczyński returned to his family home in Podegrodzie9. Here, his father sent him to shepherd sheep, because (as Fr. Wyszyński notes) his father gratis victum non dabat (did not give food for free). Fr. Wyszyński says that this young Podolinensium Musarum Alumnus, now pasturing sheep, was in schola humilitatis10 (in the school of humility), because for a youngster with a such an education, shepherding was a humbling occupation. Both fragments appeared in print in the year 1977 as part of the biography VW contained in the Positio11. [Secreta Consientiae] a. In Fragmento Primo (a) invenitur reflexio, in forma gratiarum actionis Deo, super antea in VW narratis eventibus penosis, qui iuveni Stanislao Papczyński Leopoli (in Lwów) annis 16481649 acciderunt.12 Sis tu in aeternum Domine benedictus, et fac me pos[t] tot mala13 in vocatione mea14 bona operari, cum revera, ex me, ad nihil boni aptum me esse adinvenio. Tu vero qui haec legis, ne mireris, quod a me relata sunt, nam beneficia Dei abscondere nefas esse duxi, teque volui incitare ad laudandum Dei omnipotentiam et circa nos curam. Cui sit laus, honor, gloria in sempiternum. Amen. 8 Positio, p. 18. 9 Cf. VW, § 19 at the end: Positio, p. 671, and also, n. 34. 10 VW, § 20: Positio, p. 671. 11 Cf. Positio, pp. 669-670, 671. 12 Cf. VW, §§ 16-19: Positio, pp. 667-670. P. Wyszyński, uti dictum est, notitiam de eis e SC desumpsit et dolores, tum physicos quam morales, quos Stanislaus Leopoli passus est, uti “crux Leopoliensis” denominat: “Cum hac gratiarum actione Deo [Ven. S.D. Stanislaus] concludit hanc suam relationem de illa cruce Leopoliensi...” (ibid., § 18). 13 Loquitur hic evidenter de peccatis, quae in iuventute sua patravit et in SC enarravit; cf. Positio, p. 669, no. 29. 14 Agitur evidenter de sua vocatione ad Institutum Scholarum Piarum.
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