Digital Marian Helper Winter_2019

S he didn’t have money to buy a costume. She didn’t know how to sew. What she did have was a grand- son with a school assignment to dress up like his patron saint: St. Stanislaus Papczynski ( 1631-1701), the Founder of the Marian Fathers. She also had determination and faith. More than a year ago, Marilyn Motley of Columbus, Nebraska, got a request from her then 7-year-old grand- son, Stanley. “On All Saints’ Day, the kids in his Catholic grade school dress up like their patron saints for the day,” she explained. “Stanley came to me and said, ‘Help me, Grandma!’ And I started to think, what can I do here? I remembered that about two years earlier [June 5, 2016], when Stanislaus was proclaimed a saint, the Marian Fathers sent us a prayer card with a picture of St. Stan- M arian H elpers in A ction A child’s costume, big faith, and no small coincidence Yes, a rather striking resemblance between two Stanleys, wouldn’t you say? Eight-year-old Stanley Motley (pictured with his grandmother, Marilyn) found it fitting to dress as his patron, St. Stanislaus Papczynski (inset), this All Saints’ Day. 4 M arian H elper • W inter 2019-20 • marian . org