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This paper focuses on the micro level to highlight the educational activities of one particular female religious congregation, located in the small town of Štíty in northern Moravia. Based on written and oral sources, it maps the activities of the Dominican Sisters Convent and its Girls’ School in Štíty, from its foundation to its forced dissolution by the state. In doing so, it attempts to point out certain characteristic features of the education system of the Church administered by the congregation. It also notes the influence the Dominican Sisters had on the local population.
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This article deals with a collection of four printed Christian sermons brought out between 1706 and 1721 and intended for Dominican nuns receiving the habit at St. Anne Convent in the Old Town of Prague. It focuses on these sermons from a historical perspective as well as a theological perspective and points out topics that keep occurring regularly in the texts – particularly the self­-presentation of the entering girl’s family (reading their coat of arms, important events from the family’s history), enclosure and spiritual life in the nunnery. First, the article follows a collection of three sermons written up by Dominican order preachers, especially a sermon designated for Ludmila Markvartova from Hradek. By way of these examples the article refers particularly to common topics of monastic life. Second, this essay analyses a sermon written up by the Jesuit Vaclav Nerlich and intended for Johana Agnes Baptistina Minetti. This lecture differs significantly from the previous three sermons by its deep and detailed form but also by its theological tone (the typical Jesuit approach to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary). It becomes apparent that these sermons intended for nuns served not only as a presentation of spiritual topics but also as a celebration of their families. However, the exact circumstances of their origin remain uncertain.
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The Czech Congregation of Dominican Sisters was founded in Repcin near Olomouc in 1889. The mission of the congregation was primarily to educate and to bring up young girls in the spirit of St. Dominic. As the congregation was increasingly popular with the Czech population the nuns had to rebuild and enlarge their monastery several times. The last reconstruction planned for autumn 1930 involved a new three‑floor building that was supposed to be situated next to the monastery. An Olomouc builder Jan Valihrach undertook the construction, however, shortly before its completion the building suddenly came down. The builder Valihrach just as the designer Josef Derrich were accused of the fall. While Valihrach was found guilty of the collapse of the building, Derrich’s prosecution was stopped due to his death. But Valihrach denied his guilt and subsequently brought a lawsuit against the Dominican Convention of Repcin. He demanded a payment of the agreed sum for the building and also a payment of other debts from the past that hadn’t been paid by the nuns yet. The Sisters countersued and demanded compensations for damages caused by the collapse of the building from Valihrach. After examining the evidence and questioning the witnesses of both involved parties the courts concluded that both the builder Valihrach and the deceased designer Derrich were guilty of the collapse. In case of the designer Derrich the court recognized him as the implicit representative of the Rępcin convent of Dominican nuns at the construction. The judges ruled that the Dominican sisters should pay Valihrach just a half of the requested compensation, which amounted to 333,300 crowns.
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