Veselý, Antonín, b.1912-, former Jesuit priest
- IE IJA ADMN/7/227
- Person
- 13 June 1912-
Born: 13 June 1912, Czechoslovakia
Entered: 22 September 1931, Velehrad, Zlín, Czechoslovakia (CECH)
Ordained: 07 June 1941, St Edmunds College, Farm Lane, Old Hall Green, Ware, Hertfordshire, England
Left Society of Jesus: 1946
by 1939 came to Milltown (HIB) studying 1938-1941
Irish Province News 16th Year No 2 1941
General News :
Fr. Antony Veselý of the Prov. of Bohemia who has been doing his theological studies at Milltown was recently called up for service. He had the good fortune to be ordained priest on 7th June at St. Edmund's, London, at the hands of Monsignor Myers, Bishop of Lamus. On the following day before a large gathering of his countrymen he said his first Mass at the Church of St. James, Spanish Place, offering it “for the welfare of his unhappy country, Czechoslovakia,” as mentioned on the card of invitation.
News Flashes from Czechoslovakia Under Nazi Domination, Release No.87, 23 June 1941
Czechoslovak National Council of America
Czechoslovak Priest Ordained in Britain
Antonín Veselý is the first Czechoslovak priest to be ordained in Britain. He was ordained June 7th, by Bishop Myers, and served his first Mass the following Sunday in London in the presence of Msgr. Šrámek. He studied in Poland and in Ireland and will fill the position of Field Chaplain of the Czechoslovak air forces.
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