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John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus [1]) (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) [2] was a saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia ...
Vejmluva was a proven devotee of John of Nepomuk before he was beatified as well as after he was canonized. [3] The preparation of the project dates from late April to the early August 1719, and is considered a direct reaction of the abbot to the discovery of preserved tissue in the tomb of John of Nepomuk in the St. Vitus Cathedral on 15 April ...
The Cathedral of Saint John of Nepomuk ([Катедрала светог Ивана Непомука] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) ; Hungarian: Nepomuki Szent Jánosszékesegyház; Slovene: Stolnica svetega Janeza Nepomuka) is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Zrenjanin, Serbia.
The Statue of St. John of Nepomuk is registered in the Central List of the Slovak Memorial Fund under the number 1334/2. It is a sandstone sculpture from 1796 standing on a stone base. The project of restoration of St. John of Nepomuk statue was started in 2016, was completed in June 2017.
Church of Saint John of Nepomuk Church of Saint Procopius. Žďár nad Sázavou is best known for the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk on the hill Zelená hora, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by Jan Santini Aichel. [10] It was built in the Baroque style in 1719–1722. [11]
The statue of John of Nepomuk (Czech: Socha svatého Jana Nepomuckého) is installed at Vyšehrad in Prague, Czech Republic. External links. Czech Republic portal;
St. John of Nepomuk, Czech saint, died as a martyr.His tortured body was bound and thrown in the Vltava river. St. John of Nepomuk is one of the most frequently illustrated saints in the territory of the former Habsburg monarchy and there are monuments (mostly statues) of him in almost every village in Slovakia and Czechia.
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