Those Who Carry Thirty
~ Monday, October 17, 2022 ~
Among the Strahov Monastery Library’s holdings of Jesuit Bohemian Province correspondence is a mission report dated 1694, authored by a Father Václav Kříž and covering his circuit through villages in the central Bohemian highlands. The report is administrative in character — baptisms performed, confessions heard, resistant households noted for follow-up — and unremarkable except for a single marginal annotation in a different hand, added at an unknown date after the original was filed.