“Lord Jesus, I would like to suffer because of faith too. But I've got bad luck, our nation will not descend in order to imprison people because of that and I will not be able to experience that.”
Antonie Hofmanová was born in the family of a weaver and a small farmer in the sub-Krkonoše village Horní Branná on June June 13th, 1923. She studied at the Secondary School of Economics in Prague during WWII and she came into contact with Catholic youth clubs. Under this influence she decided to become a catechist. She taught religion in the post-war border area and kept deepening her spiritual activities in terms of Jocism clubs. She contacted members of the Catholic Family, especially Silvestr Krčméry. She was arrested in December 1952 and about a year later she was sentenced in the trial 'Hofmanová and comp.' She was sentenced to a six-year imprisonment. After two years and a half she was released for her health reasons. She returned to the sub-Krkonoše region. After her strenuous job hunt she eventually became a nurse in Janské Lázně. She kept on organizing illegal Christian meetings. She wrote many books, she wrote about the story of her life in the book Žijeme jen jednou (We Live Only Once). She died on June 16th, 2009.
