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From March 7 to 12, 2222, the pilgrimage house hosted Czech and Moravian bishops, who took part in joint exercises here. These were given to them by P. Radek Tichý, who lectures on liturgy at the KTF in Prague. In addition to visiting a number of basilicas and churches, they were able to enrich themselves with lectures by other guests. On Saturday 12.3. then after Mass. blessed the Archbishop of Olomouc and Chairman of the CBK Mons. Jan Graubner newly reconstructed complex. The festivities were also attended by architects Ing. Nuccio, Ing. Cherubini, Ing. Bianchi, head of the construction company A. Paolantoni and P. Jaromír Zádrapa, who was at the beginning of the reconstruction.

From November 7 to 14, 2021, the house Velehrad hosted the Czech and Moravian bishops during their visit Ad limina. On Monday 8.11. the opening of the exhibition about P. Bula and P. Drbola took place, which is located in the Velehrad hall. We had the opportunity to attend the Mass with the bishops in the main basilicas and on Thursday the Mass was celebrated in the chapel of Velehrad. After her, the bishops met with Holy Father and they also gave him gifts, one of which was a glass reliquary with the relic of St. Zdislava. On Saturday 13.11. the bishops, together with others, traveled by bus to Assisi, where in the basilica of St. Clare was celebrated Hl. Mass from the feast of St. Agnesse from Boemia. One of the places visited was a church with the tomb blessed Carlo Acutis.

On October 11 and 12, 2021, the General Meeting of the Velehrad Association took place in the pilgrim house. Even this year, measures related to the coronavirus wave prevented most members from attending personally. The "locals" met, Fr. Bohuslav Švehla came from Germany and Fr. Hynek Šmerda from the Czech Republic. Thanks to the videoconference, however, we were able to connect with other members in America, Switzerland and, of course, especially in the Czech Republic. Three bishops also found time to meet. The meeting brought new stimuli, especially in the field of promotion of the pilgrimjoint house. It was also time for a friendly meeting at a joint lunch and some accepted the invitation to a traditional Thursday trip.

On the occasion of the beatification of the martyr and the Czech Cistercian P. Dominik Zavřel, the pilgrimage house provided accommodation to the prior of the monastery in Vyšší Brod, P. Justin Berka, and his two confreres, who came to the celebration with P. Ettler on Thursday, April 15, 2021. On Saturday 17.4. took part in the celebration of the beatification in the Cistercian abbey of Casamari, about 115 km from Rome, where P. Zavřel worked and where he was beaten as a martyr of the Eucharist by French soldiers together with five other confreres.

Since the autumn of 2020, furniture has been produced in Nosislav in Moravia for the new chapel in Velehrad. The current strict measures allow for business trips, so it was possible to transport furniture as well as kneelers made in Olomouc. The three workers not only assembled the new furniture, but also helped to hang the pictures in the new part and move out the old archive. The house is again a bit more prepared for the arrival of pilgrims.