Czech Prague Charles Bridge St John Nepomuceno
Taken on Kodak E100VS Ektachrome Professional transparency slide film with Contax camera Carl Zeiss lens in 2007. To touch the Nepomuceno sculpture is believe to make the wishes come truth. The historical starting-point of the Nepomuk legend is the person of John of Pomuk (Jan z Pomuk), a small market town of Bohemia later renamed Nepomuk, which belonged to the nearby Cistercian abbey. He was born around 1340, and he first studied at the new University of Prague, then followed a course in Canon law at the University of Padua. In 1393 he was made the vicar-general of John of Jenštejn (1348-1400), who was the Archbishop of Prague from 1378 to 1396. Among his contemporaries, the new vicar-general enjoyed no special reputation; he was rich, possessed houses, and lent money to noblemen and priests. In the same year, March 20 he was thrown into the river Vltava from Charles Bridge in Prague at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. ( link: ) It uses material from the Wikipedia article titled "John of Nepomuk"
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Location: Europe Czech Republic Prague Praha
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