English Translation

( Canisius knew that the struggle between Catholicism and the disbelief was not least a struggle for the power of the printing press, and that the victory of the party, which was able to obtain effective propaganda literature, would fall to him. In this context, Canisius once wrote: "A writer is worth more than ten professors." However, the writing propaganda carried out by the Jesuit colleges led to an indignation of the predominantly Protestant population. In the years 1609 and 1610, the crowd repeatedly stormed the Jesuit monastery in Prague and prevented the Jesuits from carrying out their ecclesiastical activities. The indignation went so far that, on the advice of Ferdinand I, the Jesuit people left Bohemia for a short time and only returned in 1611, after a visit to the population had occurred. But already in the year 1618 (Prague window collapse) the "Prague directors" sent a decree to the Jesuits, in which it is said, among other things: "Since the Jesuites and their schools harm the kingdom of Bohemia, disturb the public calm and stir up the people, we refer all Jesuits to eternal times of the country. Within a week they have to leave Bohemia." As civilians the Jesuits left Prague in silence. The church was taken over by the protestant Czech brothers. Two years later - after the Battle of the White Mountain in 1620 - the Jesuit people returned immediately to Bohemia and carried out the counterreformation on behalf of the emperor. Those who did not pass over to Catholicism were expelled from the country, and the possession of a Bible alone resulted in the beating and confiscation of possessions. Through this procedure, the Jesuits in the Czech national circles acquired the reputation as enemies of the Czech Volkes. Since most Jesuit Fathers at that time had the German nationality, the people were also