The 1950s and the beginning of 1960s persecution of the Roman Catolic church laymen in the region of Kromeríž

The aim of my thesis is to examine the up to the present not treated topic of the persecution of the lay churchgoers of the region of Kromeríž in the 1950s and in the beginning of 1960s. I will carry out the examination on the basis of available archival sources and literature and I will also endeavor to advert to the consequences of persecution as well as to mention briefly the redress of the persecuted. In the first chapter I evaluate in general the development of the church-state relationship from the 1945 till 1960. I refer to the interferences of the State with the affairs of the Church and I describe the attempts at creating interaction between the State and the Church. I always try to document the whole-state development by regional cases of persecution. In the second chapter I examine the situation of the Church in the region of Kromeríž. The chapter is further concerned with the description of the structure of the Church in this region and I mention the monastic orders and congregations operating there. I have also included the data about the religiousness in the region of Kromeríž in that period, which is essential to the overall picture of the situation. I proceed to deal with the individual cases of persecution. A whole chapter is dedicated to the restrictions imposed upon the teaching of..