"It was a weird night. You are trying to tell the people something for years, they are listening to you, and they even admire you and trust you. I have really thought about everything, I even considered ending my life. And I was alone. But I have risen and said a prayer. Then on Sunday I talked about it during all messes."
Father Alois Kánský was born on October 20th 1954. His mother was a nun, but was forced to leave nunnery in 1950. His father was a distinguished communist officer who left the family very soon. Alois Kánský graduated on the Theology faculty despite father´s aversion toward it and under the permanent StB (The former communist state secret police) supervision. Alois Kánský was ordained by cardinal Tomášek in 1978. He was forced to sign the StB cooperation documents. He functioned in several parishes like e.g. in Plzeň town, In Prague (St. Margaret in Břevnov, St. Gothard in Bubeneč), in Roztoky town, in Unětice village, in Libčice vilage, in Suchdol (part of Prague) and the last time by St. Antonius in Prague. He performed a mass at the funeral of the famous Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert in 1986, where many important and famous people from the cultural world, known by their aversion against the communist regime appeared. In 1991 he made a public confession and apologize to everyone he might have hurt by signing the StB cooperation documents. He died unexpectedly on October 31st 2008 in Prague.
