{"id":32069,"date":"2015-02-28T11:46:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32069"},"modified":"2015-02-28T11:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T15:46:35","slug":"tomas-munk-and-father-cause-for-beatification-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/tomas-munk-and-father-cause-for-beatification-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas Munk, and father, cause for beatification advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Munk-family-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32070 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Munk-family-.jpeg\" alt=\"Munk family\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Archbishop\u00a0Stanislav Zvolensk\u00fd, archbishop of Bratislava, will preside at the ceremony of the closure of the diocesan process of the cause for \u00a0beatification and sainthood of the Jesuit novice Tom\u00e1\u0161 Munk and his father Franti\u0161ek on April 20, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Munk were \u00a0Jewish converts to Catholicism in 1939. Tom\u00e1\u0161 entered the novitiate in Ru\u017eomberok in 1943. Due to the Nazi ideology against Jewish people, the Munk\u00a0family were captured by Nazis at the end of 1944. Tom\u00e1\u0161\u00a0was captured in novitiate and later was deported together with his father to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen. Father and son\u00a0were shot to death during the death march from Sachsenhausen to Berlin on April 20, 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Another good example of holiness in families. I wrote about Tomas in 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/tomas-munk-jesuit-novice-kille\/\"><strong>here at the <em>Communio<\/em> blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop\u00a0Stanislav Zvolensk\u00fd, archbishop of Bratislava, will preside at the ceremony of the closure of the diocesan process of the cause for \u00a0beatification and sainthood of the Jesuit novice Tom\u00e1\u0161 Munk and his father Franti\u0161ek on April 20, 2015. The Family Munk were \u00a0Jewish converts to Catholicism in 1939. Tom\u00e1\u0161 entered the novitiate in Ru\u017eomberok in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/tomas-munk-and-father-cause-for-beatification-advances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tomas Munk, and father, cause for beatification advances<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,22],"tags":[1708,3055,32047],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32071,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32069\/revisions\/32071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}