Nikodém Mikulaš Krett

Nikodém Mikulaš Krett, OSBM

Nikodem Krett, OSBM - portret, Prešov, Slovakia

Nikodém Mikulaš Krett (born October 3, 1912 in Folvark ( German Forberg or Vorberg ) today Stráne pod Tatrami in the north of ( Slovakia ); † April 29, 1983 in Michalovce ) was a Greek Catholic religious priest , bishop of the Czechoslovak underground church .

Life

Nikolaus Nicodemus, the second son of Johann Krett of German origin and his wife Maria, née Kuzmiaková, attended elementary school in his hometown and then the grammar school in Prešov . There the call to the priesthood reached him . He joined the Basilian Community of St. Josaphat near and into the monastery Černečej-Hore near Mukachevo . After the novitiate he studied first in Berezna Lavrov ( Ukraine ) and then philosophy and theology in Dobromyl and Kristinojoli . Profession followed in 1936 , and on July 17, 1938 he was ordained a religious priest in Prosov. On May 14, 1939, he was arrested by the Mukachevo police and expelled from the country with several religious priests. He became a professor in Medzilaborce ; on June 1, 1941, he was reported and arrested, but released after two weeks following the intervention of the Slovak President Jozef Tiso . In 1945 he became Prefect at the Prešov University, and two years later Provincial of the Basilians in Slovakia. In 1949 he was sentenced to seven years in prison. In 1954, the Košice District Court sentenced him to three years 'imprisonment, ten years' loss of civil rights and a $ 1,000 fine. The judgment was upheld in full by the Supreme Court in Prague on January 12, 1955 . On September 29, 1957, he was released from prison and went underground. He earned his living as a tram worker, as a postman and in gardening and landscaping in Košice. He performed baptisms and marriages in private homes, and administered the sacraments. In his unshakable belief in the victory of the truth, he ordained young people as priests.

In 1975 he was ordained a bishop in a secret location by Fridolin Zahradník , a bishop of the Czech underground church. This consecration did not receive the approval of the Holy See .

He died on April 29, 1983 and was buried in a cemetery in Prešov. Even thirty years after his death, the episcopal ordination was not published.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ján Babjak 2002 on Nikolaus Nicodemus Crete