Prague Catholics Rejoice at Restoration of Marian Statue Toppled by Angry Mob

Catholic News Agency ^ | 6/15/20 | Hannah Brockhaus

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Rome Newsroom, Jun 15, 2020 / 05:30 am MT (CNA).- A historic statue of Mary atop a column, torn down by an angry crowd more than 100 years ago, has been restored to its original site in Prague.

The placement of the exact replica of the 17th-century statue in the Czech capital’s Old Town Square June 4 was an event 30 years in the making.

The Marian column, as it is called, was erected to “the singing of Marian songs, the ringing of bells on the tower of the Mother of God in front of Týn [Church] and the applause of the people present,” Karel Kavička told CNA via email.

Kavička is a founding member of an association of historians, artists, and Catholics who have worked for more than three decades to create the replica and to gain the city’s permission to return the Marian column to its historic place.

“From the beginning, we have strived to make the pillar a symbol of reconciliation. Who can be a better symbol of peace than the Virgin Mary?” Kavička said.

He noted Czech Catholics’ joy at the statue’s restoration, but added that many Protestants and non-believers also supported the project because of the statue’s historic and artistic importance in Prague.

The star-crowned Mary and the 52-foot column she sits upon were pulled down by a mob of angry men, led by writer Franta Sauer, on November 3, 1918.

The statue was erected by Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand III after the end of the Thirty Years’ War in 1648, in thanksgiving for the end of the siege of Prague by the Swedish army.

After the collapse of the Catholic Austro-Hungarian Empire, the statue of the Virgin Mary “was presented as a political symbol, a symbol of the nation’s enslavement,” Kavička explained.

Jan Bradna, a........

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Bible-Believing Catholics & Protestants had better unite.
The Globalist cabal headed by the elites and current “pope” want us both gone.

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What is said is that at the end of his life, his conscience allegedly began to bother him with the destruction of the Marian pillar. Only then did he realize that it was great stupidity. Therefore, one summer day in 1946, he decided to confess in the Franciscan monastery to the Virgin Mary of the Snows in Prague with the priest P. Norbert Šamárek. A year later, Franta Sauer dies in the hospital below Petřín near St. sisters Boromejek reconciled with God. God’s Grace is mysterious but victorious.

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A historic statue of Mary atop a column, torn down by an angry crowd more than 100 years ago, has been restored to its original site in Prague.

This is how long it takes to return to some semblance of culture after the wreckers and parasites have destroyed it. And like Czechoslovakia, the period in-between will be brutal.

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**Czech capital’s Old Town Square **

Been there. Prague had many places to visit.

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Compare and contrast with what’s going on here.

A good reason I’m considering retiring in Central Europe.