STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2338, sig. 109-11/140

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22 IV. Finally there are some historical notes attached. Church and Kdoster, founded by Emperor Charles IV in l346, were repealed. A monastery, which is worth and expensive to all Czechs, Celiebt by the Pragues of both nationalities was abolished. A monastery was raised, which is world famous also by its most famous literary memorial, the Reimser Evangeliary /Texts du sacre/, the Gospel on which the French kings took the oath until 1783 at the coronation. Repealed a monastery in which Benediltines worked, the successors of the Beuron Benedictines, who came to Preg in the spring of 1880. These Benediltines are known as promoters of the kumst; many of them sina-forming chinsmen, they made Emaus one of the greatest Attrations Pregs dureh appearance and purity of their Kircho, during which the sight of their liturgical actions, the exact choral singing and the Musil. The library is a resounding goll pit for the scientific workers. The Order of the Brothers of Mercy /Ordo Hospitalarius saneti Joannis de Deo/, a Order founded in the year l540, was dissolved. What this Order performed in the field of charity in all the countries of Europe is enormous. From the beginning of the Xvll. year-end, it spread from the original Heimad eus to the rest of Europe.