The fate of the Augustinian monastery in Jaroměř and its predecessors

Religious of the Order of St. Augustine were already known throughout the Christian world in the middle of the 14th century for their blameless, pure and zealous life, which brought them universal respect. They came to Bohemia for the first time before the Hussite wars, when the Prague bishop Jan IV. from Dražice began to build a church and monastery of the Virgin Mary in Roudnice nad Labem in 1333. They were completed in 1340 and the first local…