3. June 2017

Blessed Carl I of Austria Returns to Piešťany after 100 Years

On Saturday, June 3rd 2017 NAPS founder Peter Solej and his wife Lenka attended the ceremony of relic deposition of Austrian Emperor Carl I, who ruled the Hapsburg Monarchy from 1916 to 1918, in Piešťany Spa Chapel. The Kaiser had visited this place in February 1917. He had met the Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand Coburg and German Kaiser Wilhelm II at the spa hotel Thermia. The reason of this meeting taking place in Piešťany Spa was submarine warfare and spa treatment of Bulgarian Tsar. The three emperors were coordinating further joint actions in World War 1.

The ceremony was attended by the grandson of the Blessed Emperor, His Imperial-Royal Highness Archduke Georg von Habsburg-Lothringen. The ceremonial event has been organized by the Slovak representation of the Emperor Karl League of Prayer.