The Pearl of Great Price

Sep 5 Cardinal Josef Beran - opposition to totalitarianism in Czechoslovakia

September 04, 2024 Tim Byron Season 9 Episode 5

Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague defied both the Nazis and the Communists. He nearly died of typhus in Dachau concentration camp and after the iron curtain fell was placed under 16 years house arrest by the Communists. He was only allowed to leave the then Czechoslovakia to go to Rome to be made a cardinal - on the condition he didn't return. He died in exile