1263 supplica sanctissimo domino innocentio 3. Supplica Sanctissimo Domino Innocentio (13 Septembris 1692) resumé: Rome, 13 September 169220 Introduction This Petition was to obtain papal approval for the Marian Congregation. It was submitted to Pope Innocent XII on September 13, 1692, and it was customarlity delivered on the same day to the Sacred Congregation for Bishops and Religious pro voto, i.e., to acquire its opinion on the subject. However, before forming its own opinion, the Congregation had to wait for the opinions and information which were requested from the Apostolic Nuncio in Poland by a letter of September 5, 1692. We know from Fr. Papczyński that – firstly – the examination of this matter and the preparation of the relevant information took the nunciature nearly a year; secondly – the case based on the received information was deliberated “for a long time” in Rome, probably by an appropriate Congregation’s committee. It is not known if the result of this deliberation was ultimately sent to the Pope. We only know that in 1694, Cardinal Colloredo sent a negative answer to Fr. Papczyński. This answer did not mention anything – as we must assume –about the papal approval for his Congregation, but merely stated that the approval of the Local Ordinary was a sufficient basis for his community’s legal existence in the Church21. We do not know the exact reason why Fr. Papczyński did not obtain what he petitioned for. Also in this case, the original of this Petition did not survive to our times and its date is unknown. Its content is known only from the resumé, i.e., the summary, in which form the Congregation 20 Original: New Jerusalem (?) 1692. 21 Cf. Norma vitae [The Rule of Life], Prefatio informatoria, § 4.
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