Current Affairs Agnes canonization anniversary
This week yet another 1989 anniversary was remembered: the Catholic church commemorated the 12th anniversary of the canonization of St. Agnes of Bohemia on November 12, 1989. More from Alena Skodova:
St. Agnes of Bohemia
Agnes of Bohemia lived in the 13th century, and I asked Larry Cada of the Czech Bishops' Conference in Prague what were her main merits, why she was canonized, when by birth she was a royal princess?
Canonization of St. Agnes of Bohemia
Agnes's canonization had come just several days before the Velvet Revolution started in Czechoslovakia and as we hear from Larry Cada, many people are convinced that an old prophecy had come true:
