Great peoples
The brothers ST. CYRIL - monk (c. 826-869) and ST. METHODIUS
-Bishop (c. 815-885), соpatrons of Europe, teachers and missionaries of faith.
In the Czech Republic they are commemorated at a ceremony held on 5 July at
Velehrad (ZITn Region) and in Mikulcice. Around the world their feast day is
celebrated on 14 February.
SAINT GORAZD (9th century) -one of their pupils. He came
from Moravia, and therefore in 685 St. Methodius designated him as his successor
(he is commemorated on 27 July).
VOJTECHA (ANTONIE) HASMANDOVA (1914-1988) Mother Superior
of the Congregation of Sisters of Charity of St. Charles Borromeo in Znojmo-Hradiste,
a woman of joyful piety and courageous work for the church during the totalitarian
regime.The procedure for her beatification is under way.
SAINT KLEMENT MARIA HOFBAUER (1751 -1820) - A priest of the
Redemptorist religious order. A native of Tasovice u Znojma, his original occupation
was a baker. As a missionary, he worked in Warsaw and Vienna. In 1909 he was
canonized, and five years later became the patron saint of Vienna.
RESTITUTA (HELENA) KAFKOVA (1894-1943) Franciscan nun of
the Sisters of Christian Charity. For her courageous faith and allegiance to
her conscience she was executed in Vienna. It was here also that in 1998 she
was venerated by Pope John Paul II. In her native district of Brno-Huso-vice
a local park bears her name.
FATHER JAN SARKANDER (1576-1620) priest-martyr. In Brno he
took diaconal orders (1609 - Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary - with
the Jesuits) and entered the priesthood (1609 - Brno Cathedral of St..Peter
and Paul). In 1995 he was canonized by Pope John Paul II in Olomouc. He is revered
as the patron saint of confessors.
TOMAS MARIA TYN (1950-1990)
Dominican priest, and native of Brno. He offered his life to God as a sacrifice
for the freedom of the persecuted church in our country. He died in January
1990 shortly after the fall of the totalitarian regime. In February 2006, in
Bologna, Italy, the diocesan phase of the process of his beatification was opened.
JOHN BULA (1920-1952) — priest-martyr. One of the victims
of the ,Babice Trial' under the totalitarian regime in the 1950s. In 2004 in
Brno Bishop Vojtech Cikrle opened the diocesan phase of his beatification process.
SAINT JOHN CAPISTRANO (1386-1456) - An Italian monk of the
Order of the Strict Franciscans, he was one of the most renowned preachers of
his day, and was known as the ,Apostle of Europe'. In 1451 he preached in Brno,
and in his honour the stone pulpit on the north side of the Cathedral of Sts.Peter
and Paul was named the „kapistrdnka".
SAINT BERNARDINO OF SIENA (1380-1444) - a Franciscan priest.
As a great popular preacher he passed through the Brno diocese. His feast day
is on 20 May.
BLESSED PIETRO CASANI As a representative of the Piarist
order in countries beyond the Alps, he worked in Mikulov between 1638-1641.
FR. GREGOR MENDEL (1822 1884) the founder of modern genetics,
and abbot of the Augustinian monastery in Old Brno. After 1900 his paper experiments
on Plant Hybridi-zation" was translated into all European and many world
languages.
FR. PROKOP DIVTS (1698-1765) - inventor of the lightning
conductor and priest of the Premonstratensian Order and prior of the monastery
in Znojmo-Louka, he devoted his scientific life to the study of electricity.
From 1742 until his death he worked in the parish of Pfimetice.
GEORG JOSEF KAMEL (CA MELLUS) (1661-1706), a Jesuit, native
of Brno, missionary, leading botanist, discoverer of new drugs and pharmacist.
The camellia flower is named after him.
MARTIN STREDA (1587-1649) - Jesuit priest and later provincial,
whose b faith and trust in the intercession of the Virgin Mary strengthened
the courage and bravery of the defenders of the city of Brno during the Thirty
Years War.
FR. FRANTISEK SUSIL (1804 1868) - priest, poet, translator,
one of the most important collectors of Moravian folk songs and author of several
songbooks.His collection consisted of 2361 songs of a secular and religious
nature, classified by themes and genres, and recorded in regional dialects.
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