Peregrin Obdržálek (; 9 May 1825, in

Slavkov u Brna Slavkov u Brna (; ) is a town in Vyškov District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,300 inhabitants. The town gave its name to the Battle of Austerlitz, which took place several kilometres west of the town. The his ...

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– 29 May 1891, in

Břest Břest is a municipality and village in Kroměříž District in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,000 inhabitants. Břest lies approximately north-east of Kroměříž, north-west of Zlín, and east of Prague Prague ...

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, Czech Republic) was a

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, author of religious literature, satire, and humorous tales and verses. Peregrin Obdržálek studied in Uherská Skalice,

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, then also philosophy and theology in

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. After being ordained in 1850, he worked as a curate in Dražovice,

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and in

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. After this he became a

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; additionally during his work in Břest he was appointed an honour consistory counsellor. During his vocation he founded libraries in schools, hunted for members for various religious unions, established economic associations, mutual savings banks and heavily contributed to political and humorous-instruction magazines with verses and prose. He especially excelled as a satirist, his treatises ''Maloměstské dívek vychování'' (''Small-town upbringing of girls''), ''Nedělní zábava maloměšťáků'' (''Sunday pastime of petty bourgeoises''), ''Osudná stovka či námluvy na venkově'' (''Fatal hundred or Courting in the country'') and many others appeared in the calendar ''Moravan'' (''Moravian''). Not a few sermons and songs were published in the periodical ''Posvátná kazatelna'' (''The sacred pulpit''). He put out ''Cvičení maličkých ve svatém náboženství křesťansko-katolickém'' (''Exercise of young ones in the holy Christian Catholicm''), a tender book for children, where verses of sacred history and the fundamental doctrine of the

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briefly resume. He sometimes used the pseudonym ''Pelhřim Obdržálek'' () in his works.

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