Monday & Tuesday, May 16-17
Part I: Budweis, Czech Republic
In 1950, five years after the Soviets occupied Czechoslovakia, the 17th century Redemptorist cloister in C eské Budjovice (Budweis) closed. Priests and brothers were imprisoned or forced into secular labor. The Redemptorists returned in the 1990s and re-opened the Church of the Blessed Virgin’s Sacrifice. It’s adjacent to the school St. John Neumann attended as a boy, and he likely assisted at daily Mass, according to our Redemptorist guide.