BASILICA OF SAINT MARGARETH

PRAGUE (BŘEVNOV ARCHABBEY)

CZECH REPUBLIC

The oldest Benedictine monastery in Bohemia, founded by St Adalbert in 993. Blessed Gunther, hermit, was buried here. Today, the monastery is the center of religious life and a spot of silence in the center of Prague. The abbey church of St Margareth is a huge, yet intimate baroque hall. 

“...in dancing steps / the Virgin Mary / rises toward heaven...”

- archabbot Anastasius Opasek: Spring in Rohr

I was really young at my first visit, still at the grammar school, we slept here with a friend at a seminar organised on HR and Staffing in Large Companies. If only I knew I would end up in the HCM company, I really disliked the topics back then. But it gave me the first insight into this beautiful Benedictine monastery. And a few years later, we played the Passover theater adoption right in the basilica, impressed by the personality of the then prior, later abbot Prokop Siostrzonek. Many further visits later: a glance from the tram or car window, a silent morning mass in the middle of the week.

LINKS

Benedictine Archabbey of St Adalbert and St Margareth (Czech): https://www.brevnov.cz/cs/

Benedictine Archabbey of St Adalbert and St Margareth (English): https://www.brevnov.cz/en/

Wikipedia (Czech): https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%99evnovsk%C3%BD_kl%C3%A1%C5%A1ter

Wikipedia (English): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%99evnov_Monastery

VISITS

June 3, 2021