Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

Her father was Czech Jewish and her mother was Austrian-Slovene Catholic — she was Ludwig's maternal grandparent and only non-Jewish grandparent, whose ancestry was Austrian < ref >

Old Catholic parish church in Gablonz an der Neiße, Austria-Hungary ( now Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic ).

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** Dominik Duka, Czech Roman Catholic bishop and theologian

This decade also marked the return of Catholic authors ( Josef Florian, Jakub Deml, Jaroslav Durych, Josef Váchal ) and the first entrance of the avant-garde into Czech literature, seeking to document the rapid changes in society and modernization.

These events had a wide impact on the cultural history of Czech lands, as they were consequently incorporated into the Roman Catholic and not into the Slavic-Orthodox world.

In 1414 – 1418 the Council of Constance took place, during which, on 6 July 1415, John Hus ( Czech religious thinker, philosopher and reformer ), who was seen as a threat to Christianity by the Roman Catholic Church, was burned at the stake.

The Roman Catholic parish in Spillville, St. Wenceslaus Church, was built in 1860 and is the oldest Czech Catholic church in the United States.

Reflecting its Czech Catholic heritage, Prague is also the home of the National Shrine of the Infant Jesus, which draws numerous visitors each year.

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The Battle of White Mountain, 8 November 1620 ( Bílá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech ) was an early battle in the Thirty Years ' War in which an army of 30, 000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 27, 000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy and the German Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly at Bílá Hora, near Prague ( now part of the city ).

The Sedlec Ossuary () is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints ( Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých ) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic.

From the outbreak of the Hussite Wars to the Thirty Years ' War, the town was Hussite or Protestant, but after the Battle of White Mountain ( 1620 ) the greater part of the Czech inhabitants left the town, which remained German and Roman Catholic until 1945, when the Germans were transferred to Germany.

Prominent Catholic and Orthodox countries in which Assumption day is an important festival but is not recognized by the state as a public holiday include Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines and Russia.

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* Ruthenian Catholic Church ( a sui juris metropolia, an eparchy, and an apostolic exarchate ): United States of America, Ukraine, Czech Republic ( 1646 )

Besides the separation of some groups ( Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians ) during the Age of Migration, many Vlachs could be found all over the Balkans, in Transylvania, across Carpathian Mountains as far north as Poland and as far west as the regions of Moravia ( part of the modern Czech Republic ), some went as far east as Volhynia of western Ukraine, and the present-day Croatia where the Morlachs gradually disappeared, while the Catholic and Orthodox Vlachs took Croat and Serb national identity.

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In the Czech lands, the population growth rate stood at its 1930s low ; in Catholic Slovakia, it was the lowest on record.

The Emperors continued the practice of using the Roman Catholic clergy to extend German influence into Czech territory.

Zibrt also wrote that simple Czech folk claimed that they knew and danced Polka long before the nobles got hold of it, i. e., it is a truly folk Czech dance.

Neither Frederick nor his wife spoke Czech, so court offices were staffed primarily with foreigners, while the administration of the localities was left to the local nobles.

Marriages between Germans and Czech nobles soon became commonplace.

Many Czech nobles were executed ; most others were forced to flee the kingdom.

The remaining Czech Catholic nobles gradually abandoned Czech particularism and became loyal servants of the imperial system.

Polish nobles ( Szlachta ) supported the Czechs ( at least verbally ) because the struggle of Czech and Hungarian nobles was viewed as a struggle of " free " nobility against absolutist monarchs.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic is completing a major reorganisation and reduction of the armed forces, which intensified after the Czech Republic joined NATO on 12 March 1999.

" Landsmål ", which is the foundation of modern Norwegian, was the first language to follow this program, and it was joined by modern Czech, Slovak, Finnish and later by Hebrew as nationalizing languages.

On 12 March 1999, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland joined NATO ; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia joined in March 2004 ; Croatia and Albania joined on 1 April 2009.

Some German expellees desire to resettle in their territories of birth, youth and early life, but legal procedures often make remigration difficult, even after Poland and the Czech Republic joined the European Union.

Twenty additional countries have joined the system since its creation: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Greece, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Estonia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

In the same month, all Czech or Slovak political parties in Slovakia ( except for the Communists ) voluntarily joined forces and set up the " Party of Slovak National Unity ", which created the basis for the future authoritarian regime in Slovakia.

He returned to Prague briefly for his father's funeral in July of the same year but was able to return to Paris and later joined the newly formed Czech army in Agde.

Since its establishment, more member states have joined through a series of accession treaties, from the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Norway in 1972 ( though Norway did not end up joining ), Greece in 1979, Spain and Portugal 1985, Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1994 ( though again Norway failed to join, because of lack of support in the referendum ), the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia in 2004, and Romania and Bulgaria in 2007.

Bethlen's troops joined with the troops of the Czech and Moravian estates ( led by Count Jindrich Matyas Thurn ), but they failed to conquer Vienna in November – Bethlen was forced to leave Austria after being attacked by George Druget and Polish mercenaries ( lisowczycy ) in Upper Hungary.

After Poland and the Czech Republic joined the European Union and its passport-free Schengen zone, border controls were abolished and residents of both the Polish and Czech part can move freely across the border.

Twelve former member states ( Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia ) have subsequently joined NATO.

After the Velvet revolution he entered local politics in the town of Jindřichův Hradec where he lived and immediately joined the re-founded Czech Social Democratic Party ( ČSSD, then called Czechoslovak Social Democracy ).

Czechs fought on all sides: most of the rebellious Czech generals joined Protestant armies ; Albrecht of Wallenstein was the most prominent Czech defector to the imperial cause.

Recently it joined big initiative called ProAlt against Czech right-wing government cuts, privatisation and other " reforms ".

At the end of the war he joined the Czech army, where he was gradually given more time for his gruelling training regime.

Over the next few years, budding superstars, such as Jorginho and Paulo Sérgio, joined the team, as did Czech star Pavel Hapal.

Czech politicians joined the newspapers in regularly using the term and it, along with the associated feelings, became a stereotype among Czechs.

During Czech legislative election, 2006 RMS joined the National Party which obtained 0. 1 % of votes.

At age 14, Langerová joined a local band called SPB in Sázava and then participated in and won several small TV talent contests ( the Doremi TV competition and the Star Starters contest ) before participating in the first season of Česká hledá SuperStar, a popular Czech television show based on the Pop Idol format.