The personage of Vatican dignitary, diplomat, and priest Antonino Arata before his arrival in the Baltics in the 1930s

• Authors: Marek Šmíd
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Antonino Arata spent six years in Czechoslovakia (June 1921 – March 1927) and became one of the most important and capable secretaries of the Apostolic nunciature in Prague in the twenty-year interwar period. His talks with politicians, communication with Church dignitaries, and good command of the Czech language contributed to the amelioration of tense Czechoslovak-Vatican relations as well as to strengthening the Czechoslovak population’s confidence in the Catholic Church and the Holy See. His Czechoslovak mission remained in his heart and he, allegedly, always remembered the years spent in Czechoslovakia.

Keywords

EN

History; 20th Century; Vatican; Catholic Church; Apostolic nuncios; Czechoslovakia; 1918‒1938

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Moderní dějiny: sborník k dějinám 19. a 20. století (Modern History: Studies into 19th and 20th century history)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159-173

Contributors

author

Marek Šmíd

• Filozofická fakulta Jihočeské univerzity České Budějovice, Czech Republic