English Translation

27 translation. Absehrift. K. c. 3ll0/4l S m.r. from ll. July 194l. Subject: Order of the Brothers of Mercy, their activity and regulation of possessions. Information. To enter the enclosed letter of the monastery of the Brothers of Mercy of l0.7.l94l in the above mentioned supplement, the Ministry of Education and the People's Enlightenment, on the basis of information Zie, allows itself to get a shorter way at the 2 chapter consistory in Prague. In Moravia as well as in Bohemia, the activity was stopped and all the property was confiscated. The Order of the Brothers of Mercy was introduced in an area of the former Austria / Hungary and thus in our country in the Anfan - ge of the 1 7th century. According to the valid legal regulations / the ministerial decree of the 13th century June 1858 / it is reserved for the power of government to allow in the local territory any ecclesial communities, orders, congregations. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of People's Enlightenment are not aware of any provision which the government may re-call, or any other institution, the residence permit which has been granted to a community of faith. We do not have any provision that would entitle any public body to hire an activity. Such acts would be an interference in the internal matter of the ecclesiastical authority in the rights of the Holy See /§ 14 of the law now more 50 - l874 Z a. 498 Z.I.Z. Since the legislation in this regard does not apply in the Ministry of Education and Culture