{"id":3909,"date":"2017-06-02T17:48:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/2018\/03\/16\/antonio-dos-reis-fernandes-mic-passed-awayheartbreak-leads-to-heavenly-calling-copy-copy-222\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:12:03","slug":"saint-stanislaus-papczynski-a-year-after-his-canonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/padrimariani.org\/en\/2017\/06\/02\/saint-stanislaus-papczynski-a-year-after-his-canonization\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski \u2013 A Year After His Canonization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 2, 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Saint Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski \u2013 A Year After His Canonization<\/h1><\/div>
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On June\u00a05,\u00a02016, Pope Francis proclaimed a Saint of the Catholic Church the Founder of the Congregation of Marian Fathers. Since that day, devotion to St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski developed on a scale that has surprised even his most devout venerators.<\/p>\n

For many years, holy Fr.\u00a0Papczy\u0144ski, who lived more that 300\u00a0years ago, remained a mysterious and little known character. All this has changed recently since this Saint has \u201creacquainted\u201d himself with the faithful, by obtaining from God many miracles and extraordinary graces. His canonization process not only led to the elevation to the altars of the Marian Founder \u2013 the event eagerly awaited for over three centuries \u2013 but also brought closer to the faithful the person of the new Saint and his teaching, so very relevant for our times. The numerous testimonies about graces granted through the intercession of this saintly Father were collected and published as a book entitled\u00a0Miracles and Graces Granted Through the Intercession of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski<\/i>. Pregnant women, couples trying for children, the sick, the suffering, and those in difficult life circumstances can count on Fr.\u00a0Stanislaus\u2019s particular regard.<\/p>\n

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Venerators of St. Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski praying at his tomb at Marianki in G\u00f3ra Kalwaria.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the canonization, many inexplicable phenomena have come to pass practically in every place where the Marian Fathers minister. One of them was the healing of a baby in his mother\u2019s womb that occurred in the Philippines. Several independent doctors declared the unborn child to be in the death throes and recommended immediate termination of the pregnancy. The woman, however, would not agree. She obtained from a Marian missionary the relic of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski. She held it in her hands and also placed on her belly as she recited the Novena through his intercession. And then she gave birth to a healthy child, something that the doctors were not able to explain, as Fr.\u00a0Andrzej Paku\u0142a,\u00a0MIC, General Superior of the Marian Fathers has told us.<\/p>\n

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Devotion to St. Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski is popular among the Cameroon youth.<\/p><\/div>\n

The custodian of relics of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski received such a great number of requests for relics that a number of applicants had to be placed on a waiting list. The letters arrived from all over the world, i.e., from the\u00a0U.S., the Philippines, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. The most recent ones came from India, Brazil, and Vietnam. The Novena to St.\u00a0Stanislaus has been translated into many different languages. The first parish in the world placed under the invocation of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski was opened on Sept.\u00a018,\u00a02016, in a town near Kigali in Rwanda. School and college students in the Philippines chose him as their patron for the most difficult exams. Prior to going to the health center for delivering their babies, pregnant women from the Nyakinama parish in Rwanda stop before the statue of the St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski, asking for help for themselves and good health for their babies.<\/p>\n

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Devotion to Saint Stanislaus among the Vietnamese.<\/p><\/div>\n

The novena to St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski enjoys great popularity in Poland. More than 91,000\u00a0people visited the Novena page on the site of the Association of Marian Helpers in Poland. Two films were produced for the canonization:\u00a0Father Stanislaus\u2019s Cenacle<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Saved to Save the Others<\/i>. Thanks to various TV\u00a0stations, as well as many\u00a0DVD\u2019s, more than 2\u00a0million people saw these movies. Five thousand guests visited the G\u00f3ra Kalwaria museum dedicated to the new Saint. During a three-month period, the faithful coming to pray at St.\u00a0Stanislaus\u2019s tomb filled with their names and notes the entire visitors\u2019 book that previously was sufficient for a number of years. The combined releases of books about the holy Fr.\u00a0Stanislaus numbering nearly 150,000\u00a0copies were completely exhausted.<\/p>\n

We can talk about a true devotion to a saint only when the faithful consciously choose to imitate his virtues, \u2013 said Fr.\u00a0Wojciech Sk\u00f3ra,\u00a0MIC, Custodian of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski\u2019s tomb in G\u00f3ra Kalwaria. \u2013 And this is already happening. Our pilgrims tell us: \u201cFather Papczy\u0144ski had to overcome so many obstacles in his life, but he always trusted in God, in every circumstance. I\u00a0would like to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Image of St. Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski at the entrance to the chapel of the House of Studies in Karumathur, India.<\/p><\/div>\n

On the first anniversary of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski\u2019s canonization, the Association of Marian Helpers cordially invites everyone to participate in a joint Novena. It will begin on June\u00a05,\u00a02017, with the Holy Mass celebrated at 7:00\u00a0p.m. at the Church of Our Lord\u2019s Cenacle in G\u00f3ra Kalwaria. All intentions submitted via the Internet will be delivered to Marianki in G\u00f3ra Kalwaria and placed at the tomb of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski. It was in this very church that a dead young girl was resurrected during Mass celebrated by the holy Fr.\u00a0Stanislaus in the 17th\u00a0century. Many pilgrims, who visit the Church of Our Lord\u2019s Cenacle, which holds the tomb of St.\u00a0Stanislaus Papczy\u0144ski, regard this church as a shrine, although officially this title has not yet been granted.<\/p>\n

Maciej Talar<\/p>\n<\/div>

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