STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134 Page 43 · 43 of 83
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1906, sig. 109-5/134
English Translation
- 26 - the foreign radio broadcasts were listened to and accordingly. German hostile propaganda was carried out. The hospital has long had serious shortcomings in the care .- sick. The late Cardinal Kašpar and the former archbishop's chancellor, Count Bořek Dohalsky, were very encouraged in the last weeks of the Lazarus Order. The Order now intends to purchase the church of the former "St. John" in Prague III, which is still the property of the city of Prague. In order to avoid difficulties, the members of the Order should disguise themselves as a charity consortium in order to carry out the purchase. Catechet Pavelka is to be appointed pastor of this church. P. is a member of the Order and currently head of the "Legio Angelica", an association for the training of young people for the service of the Church. The church is to be issued outside as a training place for the "legio Angelica". The Order is raised in the Protectorate purely Czech and is intended as a replacement organization for the liquidated Order of Malta. At the head of the Lazarus Order today stands as Grand Master Prince Franz of Bourbon, Duke of Seville. The Order has a Grand Priory in Germany and one in Bohemia and Moravia. In Romania and Bulgaria the Order is "souverain" and maintains embassies there. Prince Karl Schwarzenberg is in Bohemia, and Moravia's Grand Prior. The Order's chancellor is the hotel owner Weyr in Prague / TT Ambassador). The Order is divided into three branches, R: e-, priest and squire. In Bohemia the Order has so far twenty members, especially persons from the most famous noble families. Most of these persons belonging to the Order of Lazarus have been recognized as opponents+ oror as such. Until now, the Ee 1 su is not very large, he intends to develop a comprehensive charitative activity in the near future. The Czech branch has no connection with the German Grand Priory. According to his chancellor, the order wants to remain as inconspicuous as possible until "better" times come again. Of the Catholic associations, especially the Earth funeral association "Arimatheum", the "Czech Association of Catholic Women and Girls" and the Ministrant Association "Legio Angelica" with a broad-based " ~ Propaganda" appeared.