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

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English Translation

The possession of the Premonstratensian monastery of Tepl at the baths of Marienbad was transferred into state property. The monasteries of the English Miss, St. Gabriel and Sacré Coeur in Prague, were transferred to state property without compliance with the regulations of church law under the pressure of the state authority. In St.Gabriel today the post-museum is housed, in the former. Convent of the English Miss the Ministry of Finance, without any consideration for the quoted Can. 497 and the rights of Rome. The Roman Church was then felt by the ruling circles as alien to the people and pushed back by all means. Instead of the Roman ideology the national, Hussite tradition was revived and promoted. The first railway minister in the former CSR was an excommunicated priest, the former Premonstratensian Father Z a h r a d n i k. At the same time, under the socialist teaching minister H a b r m a n, despite the protests of Rome, religious instruction in the middle schools was restricted and the cross was removed from all schools. All this happened without any observance of the canonical and former Austrian state church legal provisions. The assertion of the present entry, in Section III, that the legal consequences of the religious vow as a treaty would be respected by the Czech legal system, is a naughty lie and absolute misconduct. The evidence cited is insignificant. According to the canon law and the Austrian state church law order, the solemn vow and the ordination of the priest form an impedimentum dirimens - a separating marital obstacle. Precisely the former CSR. annuls this unilaterally against the will of Rome, although this is connected with the excommunication according to the church law. the present protectorate tries to place as a kind of enlarged Vatican state, so it reckons with the dissension of the reader. However, it shows very clearly how one strives in the Czech camp, a united front between the -4