Palacky Memorial and Emauzy Monastery - Prague, Czech Republic.
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N 50° 04.388 E 014° 24.863
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A view of Palacky Memorial and Emauzy Monastery
Waymark Code: WMTNDF
Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/17/2016
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František Palacký }June 14, 1798, Hodslavice – May 26, 1876, Prague) was a Czech historian and politician, the most influential person of the Czech National Revival, called "Father of the Nation".
František Palacký was born in the northeastern Moravian village of Hodslavice, now part of the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. His ancestors had been members of the community of the Bohemian Brethren, and had clandestinely maintained their Protestant belief throughout the period of religious persecution, eventually giving their adherence to the Augsburg confession as approximate to their original faith.
Palacký is considered as one of the three Fathers of the nation – the first being the King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, the second is František Palacký and the third is President of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
About Emauzy Monastery
Like many sites throughout the city, the monastery has a long story to tell. Here are a few significant highlights from its history...
Founded in 1348 by Charles IV
In 1353 Croatian Bendectine monks arrive as the monastery is completed.
By 1419, the rise of Jan Hus and revival imperiled the monastery, but monks accepted Hussitism and Emauzy was spared the destruction that other monuments endured at the time.
In 1712 the church was rebuilt in the Baroque style and then again renovated in the Early Gothic style in 1880.
In 1941 the Gestapo moved most of the monks living here to a concentration camp in Germany.
In January of 1945, American war planes bombed Emauzy destroying much of the monastery except for parts of its Gothic halls.
Following World War II, the church fell into extreme disrepair and its hardships were worsened by the insensitivity of the communist regime. The spires we see today were rebuilt in the 1960's and the monastery was finally returned to the Benedictine monks in 1990.
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Palacky Square
Prague, Czech Republic
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Palacky Memorial and Emauzy Monastery
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