Vasil' Hopko (Slovak hero, 3)

Would You like to say something about the life of Bishop Hopko?

I love to, because Vasil 'Hopko has been a loyal and very brave man. All his life he has been  influenced by the spirits of faith and courage and love for Christ.

He was tortured and poisoned by the Communists, while he remained true to his faith. He refused to betray his oath of allegiance to Rome. He was especially filled with the desire to endure the trial, which was not to be endured by the Apostle Peter in his early years: to remain faithful to Christ in great danger of his own live.

For this is what Vasil'Hopko felt when he was pressed in prison to betray his oath to Rome, to betray his oath to the Catholic Church, to betray his oath to Christ. Vasil'Hopko persevered  under the most dreadful tortures. He has been tortured severely during a whole year, without yielding. And in his later prison years he was poisoned with arsenic, after which he has never been the same, but he has always remained faithful. And the Slovak people knew this and also by his example, they could keep one’s spirits up to continue to believe, despite everything. Bishop Hopko has by his courage nourished and supported faith in (Tjecho-) Slovakia.

He has suffered in his youth as well by the early death of his father and the departure of his mother to America in search of work. Oh, what did he crave for the love of his mother. What he has forsaken in the decision to become a priest in stead of following his mother to America! But a miracle happened: he had just decided with all his health problems to stay in Slovakia becoming priest, or his health problems disappeared like snow in the sun. This was one of the miracles he experienced in his earthly life.

So early he has forsaken his ego, his personal life, his intimate desires to serve the church, to serve Christ, to serve God.

After his imprisonment he has for four years campaigned for acceptance of the Greek-Catholic Church and was allowed for eight years to work for the rebuilding of the church. He did this with all the love and strength he had *, **.
Vasil'Hopko is very blessed.

My blessings to you all

* After his death he has been beatified.

**Bishop Hopko made his own the words of Bishop Gojdic:  "For me, it is not important if I die in the Bishop's Palace or in prison; what matters is entering into Paradise".

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Edith Drori (Slowak hero, 2)

Would You like to say something about Edith Drori (1920)?
She joined the resistance after her mother was killed.

You have chosen well.

Mankind needs examples of simple women still performing great deeds.
Edith Drori shows that an ordinary person can be special.
She shows that great sorrow can lead someone to great deeds.
She shows one can open up for a fellowman doing an essential suggestion on key moments.
She shows that women can perform the same things as men can.
She shows that not sex but courage, the heart, the will are basic characteristics of man.

She was in the resistance as a woman in a man's world and stood her ground.

She took care for people got messages about misfortunes of the Nazis and so kept one’s spirits up.
She fought against the Nazis.
She stood  up for the Jews in a very dangerous time.
She performed brave deeds to make resistance and underground work together and to learn from each other's work.

Because her mother was sent into death and she opened up at the right time for some good advice, she did not fall into the hands of the police, but she instead joined the Resistance.

She made out of the lemons of life lemon brush.
She chose for courageous deeds instead of wallowing in grief.
She lost her loved ones but chose to live for her country Slovakia.
Edith Drori is very blessed.

My blessings to you all

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Juraj Jánosík (Slovak hero, 1)

My God, would You like to say something about Juraj Jánosík? I found his name on the Internet when I was reading about Slovakia, and I found it remarkable that he did the same things as Robin Hood, but he is in any case totally unknown at least to me. Such a beautiful life in such a harsh time, I would appreciate it if You wanted to say something about him.

My son, that's allright.

The spiritual world always cherishes earthly heroes better than mankind on earth does. There have been in more times and in more countries men and women who stood up for the wretched ones of the earth and fought against the most of the time loveless rich. And there are more heroes like Robin Hood and Juraj Jánosík who were honored by their own countrymen, but now we will make the world some more acquainted with the beautiful soul traits of Juraj Jánosík. Robin Hood did receive enough attention.

Juraj lived three hundred years ago in a time of violence and lawlessness, a time when many people did not know at the beginning of the winter if they would reach the end of winter.

Juraj saw this all and had besides a sense of justice also the courage and physical strength and natural leadership to do something about it.

Not everyone knows that, and that was at that time very unusual for a strong and courageous man, he has had slain or irreparably injured nobody. He knew from deep down inside that this behaviour was not what was meant to be. And if he had robbed by his comrades, another rich man he left the rich man and his company for the time being pass unharmed, with the high risk that he would be persecuted because rich men have power and connections and do not like to be deprived from their wealth . Eventually this became fatal to him and he is, after only two years “work in the mountains" executed thanks to the influence of a wealthy man whom he had left in life. He died in 1713 at the age of 25. But Juraj did not bother much about his own fate.

The fate of the poor, the widows and orphans and the exploited peasants touched him even more, although he robbed with his gang also travellers other than the rich ones.

He was compelled into his actions after his father was put to death as a peasant-serf, because he refused to go to work, sitting at the deathbed of his wife. This was the virulent reason for the two-year mountain raids by Juraj.

Juraj has become fairly soon after his physical death in the spiritual world an important leader of his fellow Slovak, one of the reasons why he lives so manifestly in the conscience and culture of the Slovak nation.

Literature, drama and intuition of the common man have felt his spirit and his work has correctly contributed from out the spiritual world to a national figure of almost sacred proportions: Juraj Jánosík  has become for the Slovak people a spiritual symbol of courage, justice, and above all a struggle against the powerful and the establishment of the country.
Rightly so. For he can still be called as if he were a saint like accepted by the Catholic Church.
Juraj Jánosík is blessed.

My blessings to you all

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