Saints
- Saint Adalbert of Prague (Vojtěch in Czech), bishop of Prague, missionary and martyr
- Saint Agnes of Bohemia, Anežka Česká
- Saint John Sarkander, priest tortured to death in Olomouc
- Saint John of Nepomuk, known through the central Europe
- Saint John Neumann (John Nepomucene Neumann)
- Saint Ludmila, princess of Bohemia, grandmother od St.Wenceslas
- Saint Prokop, canon and hermit
- Saint Wenceslas, duke of Bohemia
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“Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope,
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The land of scholars and saints:
Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush,
Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints,”
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