Andrew R Maczynski

St Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary Papczynski was born.on May 18, 1631, in Podengrodzie, Poland. He was ordained a priest in 1661, and became famous as a gifted educator of youth, an illustrious preacher, wise spiritual director and a noted author of works on spirituality and rhetoric. He was the first in the Church to fiound a male Order dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Birgin Mary, and he did so nearly two centuries before the declaration of this dogma.