Displaying items by tag: catholic tendency
October 7, 1821 – April 26, 1894
Russian Catholic Jesuit, archaeologist and missionary, opponent of the Russian Orthodox Church, who aimed to familiarize the Western reader with Orthodox history and culture. The most significant author and publisher, who wrote in French and Latin for Eastern Orthodoxy, and searched for valuable Slavic monuments.
1904–1981
A Slovenian poet, essayist, politician and public figure, a representative of the young Catholic literary movement, known as “the conscience of his era”, and a dissident. He was the first to speak publicly about secret mass executions in Slovenia after the end of the Second World War. His only collection of short stories, Strah in pogum (“Fear and Courage”, 1951), outpaced the general development of national prose.