St Mary Preparatory High School - Eagle Yearbook (Orchard Lake, MI)

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:X The famous statue of St, Stanislaus and John Al- brecht sculptured by Stan- It ,f -, islaus Stwosz and now found in the Albrecht chapel of the Wawel Cathe- dral. .if-is gxx i Kgs, ,fri-.,+ 2111 fi Q ',AV f 'X -Q xx 'y V' fm X , X- i 5 1',g f-Jvfixi' .Q 1 1 'xg ,ff K Ri . X. ' X! 2' fkjifli 2 1,-1 ' 7 fi? c 1 4 Y gl l if xwfxjl V ' Y Jl J' fi if I A Y-3? 3 'X ,CCY My ,W E-1',,Qm,.1V.-,,Zu.Q ' - etfiif' ' 43, , ii --f' LZ- M... My -V-fl, 6 ,,,f ,K--, '- - -V A -......l.. '-'--sf ,a,.aM,e. W-MW W f ' the bishop celebrated Holy Mass. Boleslaus surround- ed the edifice and ordered several of his soldiers to kill the bishop at the altar. Three times the soldiers approached the altar to perform their monarch's bid- ding: each time they were repelled and thrown to the floor by some strange force. Finally, as Kadlubek vi- vidly describes it, the king himself approached the altar and struck the back of the saint's head with his sword. Then, fearing that the body might become the object of veneration, Boleslaus and his soldiers dismembered the corpse, cutting it into a thousand pieces, ac- cording to Dlugosz. Finally, the king ordered the dis- membered body to be strewn on the plains of Skalka as prey for beasts, but four eagles of rare size guarded the mutilated flesh, which gave forth a luminous radiance in the dark of the laid to rest near the scene of its martyrdom at Skalka, where numerous miracles were soon attributed to the saint's intercession. The process of Stanislaus' canonization started about 1250 and lasted for three years. Several bishops, par- ticularly the ailing Cardinal Rinaldo Conti, expressed doubt regarding the miracles attributed to the inter- cession of bishop Stanislaus, with the result that the whole process seemed lost. Then, unexpectedly, Cardinal Conti suddenly recuperated from his illness and attributed his recovery to the apparition of a man attired in bishop's robes who answered the description of Stanislaus. This brought the canonization proceed- ings to a successful close on the eighth of September in the year of our Lord 1253 at the church of St. Francis in Assisi, Italy, before a great gathering of the faithful. Pope Innocent IV formally proclaimed the elevation of Stanislaus to the altars of the Church and proclaimed the eighth of May as the feast-day of St. Stanislaus, the patron of Poland. Thus ends the singular tale of St. Stanislaus of Kra- kow-how he lived and died in early medieval Poland, and how, owing to the marvelous cure of an Italian cardinal, he was canonized a saint one hundred and seventy-four years after his death and seven hundred years ago this September. Robert Kowalski J, gp i n ig -jiiifs .. 'E-' 1 -5?-E551 5225+ iii' 'fri s '- er '- I '21-f: - ' ' 'lxi iff 'r.: - -1 ' RSP!- - -: ,. 1- -sq: sag- : Ilf i ri' '- 3':-5-i.ff2':-5:5 . - -' -1 .., 'z sf. I --'--'-'-..,,'5- .. .Q ,.. .,. , night. -..?gf1-Li?-iii is Sa . After three days, the canons of Krakow, ..:.,-..:.,,m,. , ,,......s- -1 .Q 2, seeking to collect the remains for a decent 4 it L --ff.Q'.'l 'i 'ff-5' '-iqjfif i burial, discovered that the dismembered , 5'7, X :xp - C-' M m ca. . C. 1 m. ., . s ' -'- --1 , - C. pits had miraculously reunited WEE each K X Y ' 1 nf- A , Q 7,-,.: 5 ,'3:2'2:' -'j I other. Then, with simple ceremony, the x X -- If -3, x':f11Ej-A T- ' ,.-Sf., if 1 N-.' 5 '.:',Ti 7-2-L body of the forty-nine year old. bishop was T j . ' jfj..- -11' nc Q-gf' N ,f -1-T: I -S ' T, C.--J ' rf, - ' :E S' 4.----ffm'-:Jr s - N - .Lei J I-3,21 .E W lf- tif- ,sq ,..':- .- gg., See,- 'rw X Y ' ' Ti- ' 2- , ',- , ,--iff it T T sf f ti-ff --A - if f 'fs-aa. N' s F - X '-ff? , - f f Az'-'ix W ig 'iw-- X Q i- ff.-Q -'-f -..- ' 'N A-S -L'j:f -.' QE 'E'-...---3,-5-,sect a c' was Artist's conception of the original Skalka Church-St. Mi- SWISS M chael's. In the circular sanctuary stood the main altar where St. V - '- S, ' ,MW Stanislaus was killed. The Martyr's body was placed in the Mi -' ii MM' crypt of this church where it remained until 1088.

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