The 17"1 century brought the first Polish generals to the Pauline order. They were: father Marcin Gruszkowicz (generał of the Pauline Order in the years 1632-1636), Father Mikołaj Staszewski (1640-1644) and Father Rafał Michalski (1687-1689). Father Marcin Gruszkowicz, bom around the year 1600, madę his monastic profession in the year 1618. He studied philosophy at the Jesuit seminary in Kalisz and subseąuently theology in Rome where he obtained a doctorate in the Holy Scripture. After his return from Romę, in the years 1627-1628, he was abbot of the Cracow convent as well as lecturer in theology. He was elected abbot and preacher at the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa at the provincial chapter held in 1628. In June 1630, he was elected Polish provincial. At a session of the generał chapter held on the 30* February 1632, Father Gruszkiewicz was elected fifty third generał of the order and was the first Pole ever to have held this Office. Father Gruszkiewicz was one of the great reformers of the Pauline order. Together with his co-workers, he managed to implement the necessary reforms of the Pauline legislation which were ultimately implemented in the form of new constitutions of the order issued in 1644 and subseąuently in 1646. Father Marcin Gruszkowicz died in Cracow in the „Na Skałce” /On the Rock/ monastery on the 3"1 February 1636 being only 37 years of age (19 years in the Order). He was buried in the crypt of the Pauline church.