FRANTIŠEK VAVŘINEC RABAS, OFMCAP (1901-1969) AS A TEACHER, AND A CLOSE COLLABORATOR OF ŠTĚPÁN TROCHTA, THE BISHOP OF LITOMĚŘICE
Abstract
The article is dedicated to Roman Catholic priest, František Rabas, who was in 1918-1946 member of the Friars Minor Capuchin and thus used his monastic name Vavřinec. The chief aim of the text is to connect his two, so far in effect separately perceived identities, that is, one of the Capuchin historiographer, teacher, and educator, the other of the Rector of the seminary in Litoměřice and a secret vicar general of the Litoměřice bishopric.
For this 'subversive' activity, he was in 1954 together with his bishop, Štěpán Trochta, and other collaborators, sentenced to many years in prison. The authors present a comprehensive biography of a notable personage of the Czech Catholic Church and Catholic intellectual circles of the first two thirds of the twentieth century, whose life aptly demonstrates the developments in the Catholic Church.