1257 ??? 1. Supplica Prima Sanctae Congregationi Episcoporum et Regularium (20 Junii 1692)1 resumé: Rome, June 20, 1692 Introduction Certain moralists considered the simple vows that the Marian Fathers were making in a Congregation of diocesan right to be ordinary promises, and therefore not as binding as solemn vows, which meant that they could be exempted from these vows by any confessor. The Marians had a religious rule (NV) that was rather more rigorous as compared to the rules of other institutes. For this reason, some of them, having experienced a harsh life, succumbed to the temptation to leave the Congregation, despite having been previously sworn to persevere in it, and they obtained exemption from their vows from confessors. Such incidents greatly weakened the growing Congregation and prompted Fr. Papczyński – who had to temporarily stop his efforts to obtain papal approval for the Congregation of Marians, which would entail the profession of solemn vows – to petition the Holy See to grant the means to counter this crisis affecting his Community. Neither the original nor any copy of this Petition has survived to this day, and the date of its writing is also unknown. Its content is known only from the resumé, i.e., the summary made in Rome to be presented at the session of the Committee of Cardinals of the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and Religious, which took place on June 20, 1692 (which also dates the Petition). Before making any decision on this matter, the Committee resolved to send 1 Original: New Jerusalem (?) 1692.
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