1171 oblatio ond, around mid-October 1699, and the third, on December 20, 1699. The reply to the third request has been partially preserved; however, this document does not mention it either. The fourth petition of November 22, 1670, which has survived until today, refers only to the Papal brief, which imparts to the Superior General of the Piarists the privilege of granting an indult of departure to those Piarists who do not wish to make solemn religious vows. In FDR, St. Stanislaus Papczyński perceives his story as a spiritual journey and gives the witness of faith to it. In his biography of the saint, written four years after his birth to Heaven, M. Leporini sees these events in the same way. Let there be no error here: he sees it also as a spiritual journey, although he sees it from a slightly different perspective. Moreover, even assuming that the whole crisis was triggered by the causes described in the Apology, yet, thanks to his faith and God’s special gifts, St. Stanislaus Papczyński matured to a new vocation and discerned the new path that Divine Providence was leading him on. In the end, he became that “unfit instrument [used by God] for founding the lowest and the smallest Congregation of Fathers of the Blessed Virgin Mary Conceived Immaculate” (FDR, 1). All this happened over the space of several years and we do not have access to the source documents of this period. Nor do we know when the “Divine vision” of the new community was “imprinted upon his soul” (FDR 6, 9). Certainly, it happened during his membership in the Piarists76, as evidenced primarily by the fact that the formula of vows, in other words – the Oblatio – had been written before he received the indult of departure and he inserted in his Oblatio the main features of the new community, that is, its name, purpose, etc. 76 C. Krzyżanowski makes no conjecture about the time of this mystical experience, but only states: “it is not known when God inspired him with this idea” (Positio, p. 211). On the other hand, T. Rogalewski, MIC, in his extensive biography of our Founder, based however on the Positio, ventures to say that it could have been “during the time of his incarceration in Podoliniec and Prievidza,” i.e. in the period from January 28 to March 22, 1669. Cf. T. Rogalewski, MIC, Stanislaus Papczyński (1631-1701). Founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers and Inspirer of the Marian School of Spirituality, Stockbridge, 2001, p. 193.
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