Blood poisoning in correction in Bory
“I was near death, because I had no hope. If there is no doctor, blood-poisoning gives you terrible pain. The pain was so great that I must have been fainting. At times I didn’t feel any pain at all. One felt as if floating on waves. My mom appeared in front of me. And inside my soul, I cried: ´God, if you really exist...´ I was a believer, but I didn’t dare to... to believe as much as my mom did. That saves my life. I was in a situation like this. And after that, feeling desperate, I was apparently biting the wound, sucking it, and then I lost consciousness. In the morning I was woken up by a kick from the warden, and my hand was already feeling better. I survived. I was simply born again that day.”
- born May 10, 1930 in Josefov (Hodonín district)
- December 22, 1948 sentenced to two years for distribution of anticommunist pamphlets
- imprisoned in Cejl in Brno, in Uherské Hradiště, Pilsen-Bory, Dolní Jiřetín and in the Jáchymov region
- in Cejl met Antonín Zemek of the Dominican Order
- in Uherské Hradiště witnessed brutal interrogation by Alois Grebeníček
- in the Bory prison met René Černý, a major of the general staff
- while in a correction cell in Bory, suffered from blood poisoning and nearly died
- released September 26, 1950
- spent three years in the PTP
- 1959 StB repeatedly blackmailed him
- married Jaromíra Šenková in order to avoid the pressure from StB
- secretly studied the UP Faculty of Theology in Olomouc
- July 20 secretly ordained a priest by bishop Siard Klement
- during the normalization era still under StB surveillance
- 1998 his marriage was declared null and on September 25 he was officially ordained a priest
- at present serves as a spiritual administrator of the pilgrimage site of Virgin Mary the Helpful in Zlaté Hory