1167 oblatio The Place of the Creation, the Time and the Purpose of the Oblatio We do not know the exact time when St. Stanislaus Papczyński wrote the Oblatio. The place of its creation is similarly unknown. The date and place provided at the end of the document (Kazimierz near Krakow, in the residence of the Poor Fathers of Our Lady of the Order of the Pious Schools, [...] on December 11, 1670) refer only to the time and place of the text’s [public] reading. One thing is certain: the Oblatio was created prior to Fr. Stanislaus’ receiving the indult of departure from the Piarists and it was prepared so carefully as to include all of the essential elements of a religious profession. The author himself testifies to this, writing in the FDR that he recited the formula [of the vows] at the time of receiving the indult of departure, in the presence of the Piarist Vicar Provincial, Fr. Michael Kraus, and other people who were in attendance. The Oblatio is the profession of religious vows in the newMarian community, used not only by St. Stanislaus on December 11, 1670, but also by candidates who joined the Marian Congregation later. The Founder clearly writes about it in FDR, as he reports the religious vows of the first candidate and also provides the same formula of the profession: “[...] as the above form composed and de- fined by me” (FDR, 15). Fr. C. Krzyżanowski, MIC, the leading researcher of St. Stanislaus’ life, the author of the Positio and many other works, who published the Oblatio for the first time, had no doubts in this regard; he thus described the formulas: “It should be noted that in those days, as the candidates’ admission to the nascent Marian Fathers’ Institute, they used the formula [of the vows] adapted to the Oblatio of the Servant of God.”69 The Oblatio and its Controversial Interpretations Historical-contextual research on the life of St. Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary, related mainly to his beatification process and the later editions of his writings in the original Latin and in translations into national languages, inevitably caused, in a certain sense, differ69 Positio, p. 213.
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