Václav Malý studied at the Roman Catholic Saints Cyril and Methodius Faculty in Litoměřice (since 1990 part of the Roman Catholic Theological Faculty of the Charles University) from 1969 to 1976. He was ordained a priest on 26 June 1976.
Political activitiesedit
During the communist regime period in Czechoslovakia, prior to the Velvet revolution in 1989, Václav Malý was a signatory of Charter 77[4][5] and, in 1978, a founding member of the Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted. In January 1979, he was officially forbidden from exercising his activity as a priest and was imprisoned without trial from May to December 1979.[2] From 1980 to 1989 he worked as a fireman and surveyor, while secretly continuing to minister as a priest and participating in the creation of a Catholic samizdat.[2] In 1989, during the Velvet Revolution, he was one of the main spokesmen for the Civic Forum[2][6] and a member of the opposition delegation during the negotiations with the government of Ladislav Adamec. During the 4 December 1989 mass demonstration in Wenceslas Square, he publicly read out the Civic Forum statement demanding free elections the following year and the immediate formation of a coalition government.
In November 2021, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, awarded Václv Malý with the highest French order of merit, the Legion of Honour, for his personal commitment to human rights. Václav Malý received the order at the French Embassy in Prague.[7]
Ecclesiastical careeredit
Václav Malý was appointed auxiliary bishop of Prague on 11 January 1997.[5]
Referencesedit
^"Václav Malý (1950)". pametnaroda.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2022-06-05.
^Kirschner, Jan (2021-11-28). "Biskup Václav Malý dostal nejvyšší francouzské vyznamenání Řád čestné legie". christnet.eu (in Czech). Christnet.eu. Retrieved 2022-06-05.
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