"We returned that Wednesday and then on Friday there was the demonstration in Prague. And then somehow on Sunday and Monday we met at the faculty, we announced a strike, that we joined the students' initiative. We announced to the dean that he didn't have to go there anymore, that we didn't want him on the faculty anymore, so it was kind of... We started actually in the district town, in Litoměřice, to actually prepare some actions... we were some kind of a committee, that by some coincidence I was somehow chosen, that I also together with two other students, we decided that we would make an event, that we would invite like the police and the district committee of the Communist Party and the city to the event on Wednesday. So I was in the trio that went to the city, we were received there, they made us coffee, the mayor or the chairman of the national committee at that time, right. So there I was like, let's say, classy. Then we went to the cops, so the cops, they took us inside that, to that district headquarters or then, I don't know what it was called - and the demonstration of force. There, just as we were sitting there waiting, they were coming to pack shields and helmets and batons. You laugh about it today, but that was a demonstration of force."
"Of course, we were, even as far as we were concerned, as theology students or in general, when we had some contact with Abbot Vít Tajovský and the religious, the organization of the Premonstratensian Order, so one was always somehow in the focius of State Security. Or in such a constant danger that it would somehow come out and that there might be some difficulties. But he was a young man, so he didn't admit it that much."
"From the age of twelve I had a desire to become a priest, because at that time in our village - and he was from a neighbouring house - there was one who had finished his studies at the theological faculty and had been ordained a priest, he was ordained in Prague, and then he had his First Mass in the cathedral. And that somehow appealed to me at that time, that this could also be my path, my way, my task in life."
Pavel Adamec, religious name Hroznata, was born on 8 March 1963 in Havlíčkův Brod into a Christian family. He spent his childhood in the village of Věž in the Vysočina region. From the age of twelve he longed to become a priest. He graduated from the grammar school in Havlíčkův Brod and entered the Faculty of Civil Engineering. He left school in his first year and in 1983 he entered the Roman Catholic Cyril and Methodius Theological Faculty in Prague, based in Litoměřice. A year later he joined the Premonstratensian Order and participated in secret meetings. In 1985-1987 he completed his compulsory military service in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia. In November 1989 he participated in the canonization of Agnes of Bohemia in Rome. Upon his return, he joined the student strike and other activities in support of regime change. On 9 March 1990, Pavel Hroznata Adamec took his religious vows in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Želiv and was ordained a priest that same year. In July 1990, he became the prior of the Želiv monastery and then a parish priest. From 2004 he administered the parishes of Heřmanův Městec, Morašice and Vápenný Podol. In August 2009 he was appointed administrator in Havlíčkův Brod. From 2017 he served as vicar in Humpolec, where he lived in 2023. He died on 12 February 2026.
