John Dvorák
John Dvork
(John Dvork) (1751 -1821 ) Confessor, apostle of Vienna, second founder of the Redemptorists, born Tasswitz, Moravia; died Vienna. He studied at Vienna, and visiting Rome as a pilgrim, he joined the Redemptorist Order and was ordained, 1785 . With a companion, Thaddus Hbl, he introduced the congregation into Warsaw, 1786 , where it had phenomenal success until 1808 , when its houses were suppressed and the fathers exiled from the grand-duchy. Clement then acted as chaplain to an Ursuline convent in Vienna. He was the chief supporter of religion in Austria, and contributed greatly to the extinction of Josephinism. Canonized , 1909 . Feast , 15 March .