Prague. On Sunday September 22 a festive Eucharist was held in the Jesuit Church of St. Ignatius presided by the Archbishop of Prague Cardinal Dominik Duka, during which the remains of Fr. Adolf Kajpr SJ (+1959) were deposited in one of the lateral chapels of the Church and the diocesan phase of his beatification process was started.

Among the concelebrants were the Postulator General of the Society of Jesus Fr. Pascual Cebollada SJ, the Slovak Jesuit Provincial Fr. Rudolf Uher, a representative of the Austrian Jesuit Province Fr. Gerwin Komma SJ and the Czech Jesuit Provincial Fr. Petr Přádka SJ.

Fr. Adolf Kajpr SJ (1902–1959) was a Czech Jesuit, active in the apostolate of the word as a famous preacher, writer and journalist. In his time, he encouraged Catholics to enter into the dialogue with the modern secularised society and to be able to fight from the position of Christian humanism for freedom of human person from any kind of totalitarianism. He was imprisoned both by the Nazis (Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, Dachau in the years 1941 – 1945) and the Communists (Mírov, Valdice, Leopoldov in the years 1950–1959). He is considered a martyr ex aerumnis carceris – he died in Leopoldov due to the hardships of incarceration.

Preparation of his beatification process started in 2017 with the consent of Father General Arturo Sosa SJ. As vice-postulator of the process was appointed prof. Vojtěch Novotný, Dean of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the Charles University in Prague.