Identify a plaque in Prague Vyšehrad cemetery

9/12/2016 1:54:04 PM

Action K is the name for the project of illegal elimination of
monasteries and male catholic monastic orders that took place in the
communist Czechoslovakia in April 1950. It was preceded by the staged
trial of Machalka et al. involving order superiors, intended to
provide ideological justification for the general public. 219 monastic
houses were closed down and 2376 monks were interned during the action
in Czechoslovakia. Movable and immovable property of orders was
confiscated (though for real properties, this formally happened only
later). The action resulted in a huge loss of cultural heritage as
several monasteries started to fall into disrepair and others were
intentionally destroyed; a lot of valuable printings disappeared and
movable properties were misappropriated, for example an ancient
furniture and so on. Soon after Action K, Action R followed. Action R
was slower and it was aimed against nunneries. The last one, Action B
was meant to formally eliminate all orders, but in did not materialize
to a large extent. The first night when the monasteries were attacked
and closed down has been nicknamed ‘St. Bartholomew’s Day of Monks’.

http://www.mistapametinaroda.cz/?lc=cs&id=217&ls=en

  1. – 14. 4. 1950 – “Action K” – forceful concentration of Czech monks, List of witnesses: http://www.pametnaroda.cz/anniversary/detail/id/42?locale=en_GB
9/12/2016 12:47:59 PM

The inscription says in Czech:

Památce kněží, řeholníků a řeholnic, obětí nacismu a komunismu

Já jsem vzkříšení a život. Kdo věří ve mne, i kdyby umřel, bude žít.

Evangelium Svatého Jana 11, 25

Translation of the first part is:

To the memory of priests, monks and nuns who were victims of nazism and communism

The second section is part of a verse from Gospel of John (11, 25), which is translated as (KJV):

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live

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