Marie Damborská

"You mustn't have irritated the Communists too much. They (P. Ondřej Damborský) always said: 'To take my consent for some stupid thing, I don't want it.' And so, when the secretary came, or one day there was a secretary in Vyškov. A plump woman, as far as I can see. A transparent blouse, she was still dressed like that, and so she got there and my uncle wasn't home, so I had to find a topic to keep her busy. And here in Breclav, we were already in Pavlovice, there was an actor again, he was playing theatre. And he talked to me, and the hour passed like nothing... I've experienced them like that sometimes." - "But you say you had to entertain her. That is, she came and sat down and had a coffee ..." - "Yes, and she said, 'When the parson's not at home, I'm here.'"

"At Velehrad in the sixty-eighth year there was a great gathering of priests, and it was a gathering of priests after that time from the forty-eighth year to the sixty-eighth year, when in fact it was hard to do anything, and in the sixty-eighth year it was already... it was called the Work of the Council of Renewal. That was after the Council, and that's where it was all going. There was no knowledge of the Second Vatican Council. That time my uncle arrived so happy, well they were so excited that... that was in April, it was right after Easter. They still talk about it, how beautifully it was established. But then August came, the Russian troops... well, that's it. The first thing they banned, it was already established, there were statutes, that Work of the Council of the Renewal, and that was the first thing they banned immediately."