A Beautiful Autumn Day on the Green Hill

It was one of the last sunny autumn days and I had the possibility to participate in the concert of the folk group Hradišťan in the Convent Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary near the Church of St John Nepomuk.
The Kolping Art of the Czech Republic celebrated 20th anniversary of its foundation.
It was a wonderful concert and during listening religious and folk songs the audience could think about this extraordinary place.
This church is the second longest church in Moravia. Renovation to the baroque style was performed by architect Jan Santini Aichl who is the main designer of our project aim - the Church of St John of Nepomuk. The high altar comes out from Santini´s composition, too. We could admire monumental sculptures of St Adalbert, St Wenceslas, Mary of Egypt, the big picture of fourteen saint assistants with a figure of St Christopher (we could see his statue in the Old Church in Petäjävesi), the picture of the Ascencion of Virgin Mary. The sculptures were created by the pupil of Matyas Braun Rehor Theny, who had been working at the monastery almost for 30 years. Another meditative song was performed and my eyes went to the altar on the left side with a statue of St Nicholas and opposite a statue of St Margaret, below a statue of St Benedikt and on the right-side hand a statue of St Bernard.
It was a very festive Saturday afternoon and I with my family decided to visit the aim of our EU project the Church of St John of Nepomuk on the Green Hill.
I had the most important objects for our project - a few questionnaires and a camera.

There were only a few visitors who were willing to answer my questions. They went there just for a walk or they came to honour their relatives buried in local tombs.They put flowers on the tombs or decorated them with dried wreaths.
The time of All Saints Day is approaching.

Jitka Stráská, Filip Vaníček

Meeting of young Christians and Pharaoh‘s run

On Saturday, 22nd September, there were two interesting events on the Green Hill.

 One of them was the meeting of young Christians. It took place in the church of St. John Nepomuk. People who wanted to participate were coming from the church of St. Procopius, which is in the town. Then there was a mass in the church of St. John Nepomuk. It started at 14:30. People who wanted to know something about the church could listen to the lecture of the deacon. The lecture was before the mass.

I could not listen to the lecture because I tried to take pictures of young firefighters, running up the stairs. They weren’t real firefighters just children who  competed in firefighters competitions. One of them was the game called also Pharaoh‘s run which takes place every year at the stairs to the Green Hill. Now it was held for the seventh time. My brother was there too. He finished the second. At the end people went to the monastery to have a snack. When the young Christians were leaving the church after mass, the stairs were again full of visitors.

Míša M.