The bust of Jan Nepomuk Anastasius Opasek - Kolín IV

Monuments to regional figures Memorial to Dr. Jan Nepomuk Anastaz Opask by academic sculptor Stanislav Hanzik (bronze bust) and Cologne mason Ivan Erben (amphibolite pedestal), opened on April 20, 2013 on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the rector. The monument was consecrated by the abbot of the Strahov Monastery, Mikhail Josef Poezdny, in the presence of the Austrian Mayor of Vitus. Archiopath personally seated the author of the bust at the end of his life as a model in the 1990s, and Stanislav Ganzik personally chose a location for his location in Kolín - a place opposite the school that Anastas Opashek attended. The work of art was purchased for 180,000 CZK. Jan Vojtech Nepomuk Anastas Opasek (* April 20, 1913 Vienna - † August 24, 1999 Rohr Monastery in Bavaria) was a Roman Catholic priest, poet, theologian and Benedictine monk, rector and later archbishop of the Brzewnov monastery in Prague. He spent his childhood and youth in Kolin in 1919-1932, and in 1932 he graduated from the Kolinsky Real Gymnasium (now the Business Academy). He celebrated his first Holy Mass after his ordination to the priesthood in 1938 at the Church of St. Bartholomew in Cologne. In 1947 he became abbot of the Brzhevnov monastery, in September 1949 he was arrested, and in early December of the following year he was sentenced to life imprisonment in a trumped-up case of monsters. after the amnesty in 1968, he left for Austria and then for the Federal Republic of Germany, where he lived until 1990. In 1991 he again became abbot of the Břevnov Monastery, and in 1993 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II after promoting Břevnov Abbey under the Archdiocese. the first Břevnov archbishop. He died on 24 August 1999 while visiting a sister Benedictine monastery in Rohr, Bavaria, where he was exiled. His body was posthumously transported to his homeland, he is buried in the Brzewnovsky cemetery U Sv. Market in Prague.