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    Published: 2022-11-29
    Vol. 38 No. 1 (2017)

    Report of Szczepan Trochta, SDB on Salesian Confreres in KL Dachau, Sent to Fr. Pietro Ricardone, Rector Major of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, After the Liberation of the Concentration Camp

    Jarosław Wąsowicz
    Seminare. Learned Investigations
    Section: History
    https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.1.13

    Abstract

    The paper presents a letter of Fr. Szczepan Trochta, rector of the Salesian house in Prague to the Rector Major, Fr Pietro Ricardone, sent to Turin after the liberation of the concentration camp in Dachau. Fr. Trochta reports in the letter about his three years’ long imprisonment in German extermination camps, and informs also about the fate of other Salesians who were held in KL Dachau. Fr. Szczepan Trochta was appointed bishop of Litoměřice in 1947. He was interned by the communist government in 1951 and in 1953 sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment. In 1960, he was released under amnesty. On 24 April 1969, Trochta was appointed cardinal in pectore by Pope Paul VI. This nomination was by the Holy See on 5 March 1973.

    Keywords:

    Salesian, Card. Szczepan Trochta SDB, Fr. Pietro Ricardone SDB, Konzentrationslager Dachau, martyrs

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    Wąsowicz, J. (2022). Report of Szczepan Trochta, SDB on Salesian Confreres in KL Dachau, Sent to Fr. Pietro Ricardone, Rector Major of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, After the Liberation of the Concentration Camp . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 38(1), 165–168. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.1.13

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