English Translation

-5- ".Hermann Göring". He had already discussed this matter with ministerial conductor: Roth from the Reichskirchen-ministerium, and it is inexplicable to him that the Basilians had not received permission to enter the Protectorate. The Order of Basil is the oldest order of Christianity. The rule of the oldest order of the Western Church (Rome), the Benedictines, is only a further training of the Basilian rule. Benedict himself was originally a Basilian monk. The Eastern Churches - Orthodox as well as united - know only one order, the Basilians order. The twenty-five theologians already present in Prague, among whom there are three teachers, come from a branch of the Order of Basil, which has its Generalate in Ungvár, its Novitiate in Rosvigovo near Munkács. In addition, there are smaller Nièderlassungen in Bereznoje, Maloje, Hust- Boronava, Imstocevo near Bilki, all in the Carpathian-Ukraine. This branch was re-established and re-organized only after the overthrow of 1918. The structure may be fully organized under the influence of the spiritual leadership and according to the pattern of the Roman Catholic Redemptorist order. Therefore, this branch is oriented entirely towards Rome and adapts itself in all respects to the Roman model. In contrast to other groups of the United Church, e.g. in Galicia, he is Roman-centralist. In the efforts of the previous Union work, Mit n a c h t had no sense of raising the national resistance of Ukrainians, which was in the German interest. On the contrary, he consciously worked in the sense of Rome and Prague by supporting the Czech aspirations for the disintegration of national-Ukrainian self-confidence. In the former CSR, Mit n a c ht was one of the most well-known political figures who maintained relations with all political camps. He comes from the Bavarian Order Province of the Augustinians, into which he entered as a later appointed after he had been a German news officer in the World War 1914/18. He enjoyed a Jesuit education at the Würzburg Seminary and completed his novitiate -6-