Pavol Hnilica
Pavel Mária Hnilica SJ, Pavel Hnilica, German Paul Hnilica, ( born March 30, 1921 in Unatin, Slovakia, † October 8, 2006 in Novohradský ( German: Gratzen ) ) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church ( Czechoslovak underground bishop).
Life
Pavel Mária Hnilica, came from a poor peasant family, he was the oldest and had seven siblings, attended high school and entered the Jesuit order in 1941 and began the novitiate at the Kláštor pod Znievom ( German: Kloster Kühhorn ). In 1945 he began the study of philosophy in Brno and later in Decin. He then studied theology in Trnava. On September 29, 1950 he was ordained by Bishop Robert the Pious, Apostolic Administrator of Rožňava a priest in the Society of Jesus.
He was ordained by Robert the Pious bishop on 2 January 1951. As priest and bishop ordinations in Czechoslovakia were banned found this acts in the underground, to an unknown place instead. He dedicated priests, and on 4 August 1951, later Cardinal Ján Chryzostom Korec bishop. On December 4, 1951, he fled from Czechoslovakia, went to Rome and attended lectures at the Pontifical Gregorian University in order to deepen his theological studies. He traveled the world, visited Slovak communities of emigrants in Europe, America and Australia, preached and reported on the events in the communist-ruled homeland.
At the beginning of the Second Vatican Council, he was first counselor. His appointment as Titular Bishop of Rusadus on May 13, 1964, Pope Paul VI. his episcopal ordination and published it. The third and fourth session he was allowed to attend as a Council Father
He worked closely with Chiara Lubich and the Focolare Movement along her, and helped Mother Teresa in 1968 when they founded their first house in Rome and 1991 in Slovakia.
A particular concern for him was the " Message of Fatima ", the conversion of Russia. On 24 March 1984 he celebrated ( incognito, as an Italian citizen), with the approval of Pope John Paul II, in the Moscow Kremlin, a Holy Mass with prayers and texts, which had given him the Pope.
In the 1990s he served as rector of the priestly community in Engelwerk active in Rome ..
He was convicted by a Milan court for money laundering in 1993, which was in the aftermath of the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano in 1982, found. By paying a very high bail amount, he obtained freedom and lived in retirement in Rome.
In summer 2006, he left the "Eternal City", he was taken in the monastery of Divine Mercy in Novohradský in South Bohemia where he fünfundachtzigjährig died on 8 October 2006. His final resting place he found on 18 October 2006 in the crypt of St. John the Baptist Cathedral, Trnava