STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134

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25 czech intelligence, but also to rich German office etc. with beggar letters. In the municipality of Schakwitz (QLB Brno), the church also develops a particularly striking building activity; a new Orel-Heim and a rectory with a cost of about 200 000 crowns was created by the congregation on the initiative of the clergy For the renewal of the Agnes Church in Prague, more than 30Ö O00 crowns were issued last year and for the Earth Chantei Church in Kuttenberg 900 000 kroons were spent. The reconstruction of the cathedral in Königgrätz was completed in March. The inauguration of the new cathedral in its interior took place on Sunday, 23 March 1941 by Bishop Dr. Pícha instead Of the various male orders, besides the Dominicans, Benedictines, Redemptorists and Salesians, the Franciscans have recently also emerged through extensive work of construction, the aim of which is the complete capture and action of the Catholic population, in particular of the intellectual class still somewhat distant from the Church. Father Urban, the now provincial of the Franciscan Order, who in the former ČSR strongly supported the interests of the Catholic People's Party and understands his relations from that time very well, has for some time gathered a larger circle of young academics and intellectuals. The members of this active lay circle. After the end of each course, the student who has given himself the name "studies catholicum" will receive a grade on his or her achievements, as is otherwise the case at higher education institutions. Among the Charitas Schvesters, who are particularly helpful to the parish clergy in his work in the care of the city's souls and exert a great influence in the poorer peoples, Father Urban also carries out a systematic education work. The Hospital Order of the Brothers of Mercy has for some time shown a rich and hostile attitude towards the people. Operation. The management tried by all means to withdraw its hospitals and unused furnishings from the use by the German Wehrmacht. Furthermore, it has taken over Jewish property as property of the Prague Masonic Lodge, with the obligation to undo poor members of the former lodges with funds in the future. In the course of the investigation, the moral misconducts of the members of the Order, which have been known for a long time, have now been revealed almost completely. The moral depravity of the individual brothers is by no means inferior to the gross misconceptions revealed in the Koblenz moral processes. Individual brothers have passed away in the most perverse way to patients and adolescent persons, -