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-3- Czech language and preached in this language itself. It is particularly striking that two of his long-time pupils, the present Provincial Bonaventura C e r n y, born 17.1.1902 in Liberec, and the former Prior Franz S c h u b e rt, born 14.5. 1902 in Prague, both ethnic German descent, who left German nationality and became Czechs. Both came to Prague in 1930 from Münnerstadt/Bavaria without mastering the Czech language. Like all renegades, Sc h u b e r t and c e r n y became angry chauvinists of the new nationality and oppressors of every German movement in the Augustinian monastery. This is also the reason why they already several years after their priestly ordination in the High Office of a Provincial. M i t n a c h t, which maintains direct relations with Rome, was commissioned in 1934 by the Pope to take care of the Russian emigration. To this end, he was granted permission to raise the Catholic Church with Byzantine Slavic rite. This was formerly connected with the "Union work for the Catholic church in Bohemia and Moravia". This was originally a purely Czech company under the leadership of Czech Jesuits. It had Slavic national imprints and relied on the tradition of Slavic Apostle Cyrill and Method. Since this was no longer feasible after the establishment of the Protectorate, Mit - n a c h t took over the matter without excluding the Slavs. He intends to win young German men for the idea of missionary work among the Slavic Orthodox and to educate them possibly to be priests of the Byzantine-Slavic rite. For this purpose, the establishment of a Uniaten seminar in Prague was intended to be part of a seminar for foreign priests planned by the "Reichsbund für das catholic Deutschtum im Ausland". Today, Mit - n a c h t already has a small circle of young people around him, which he leads in the above-mentioned sense. He holds a Byzantine-Slavic service every Sunday in the chapel of the Minorite monastery of St. Jacob. This happens -4-