Martyred priest Josef Toufar remembered

The town of Číhošt' in the Havlíčkův Brod region is marking 73 years since the murder of priest Josef Toufar, who died after being brutally tortured by the communist secret police in 1950. The secret police  tried to force him to confess that he had staged the so-called Číhošt' miracle – when a cross in the Číhošt' church moved while he was celebrating mass.

A special mass at the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary will begin an hour before noon on Sunday, followed by a meeting of the townspeople at the local inn. The guest speaker will be evangelical clergyman Miloš Rejchrt, a former dissident and spokesman for Charter 77.