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Rev. Dr. Wenceslaus Michalicka, O.S.B., Delivers Address from Radio Stations WGES and WMAQ.
HE REV. Dr. Wenceslaus Michalicka, O.S.B., was born in Union City, Oklahoma, where he received his elementary education in country and parochial schools. After completing his secondary and college training at St. Procopius College, he entered the Benedictine novitiate in Minnesota.
His philosophic and theological studies were made at St. Procopius Seminary, where he was also ordained to the priesthood in 1920. Then he enrolled at the Catholic University of America at Washington, D. C., where he specialized in Canon Law and received his doctorate (J. C. D.) in 1923. At present he is professor of Canon Law at St. Procopius Seminary. —Ed. Note.
On September 28th, Father Wenceslaus Michalicka, O.S.B., delivered an interesting speech about Czechoslovakia’s Guardian, St. Wenceslaus, from Station WGES. His address was as follows:
“This talk is dedicated to the memory of one of the greatest characters in Czech history, the Good King Wenceslaus, commemorated in an old English hymn, familiar to so many of you. Today on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean tribute is paid to this personage. In the old country people of Czech descent are gathered today in many places to do honor to Bohemia’s King and Patron Saint. On this side of the Atlantic many gatherings were held today in his honor. But especially in Prague, in the St. Wenceslaus square, did the nation gather today at his imposing statue to pay him homage. On the banks of the silvery waved Vltava, on the heights of the pic-