ThDr. Pavel Škrabal OP - Author of the Work that Could Not Be Finished

The article gives an overview of the career of Czech biblist Vladimír Pavel Škrabal OP. We can summarize his life in the following dates: on 1 Nov 1904: born in Babice u Uherského Hradiště; on 26 Sept 1923: takes the first vows; on 9 Jul 1928: ordination (Rome); on 15 Jul 1928: his first mass (Babice); on 22 Jun 1929: licentiate (Angelicum, Rome); on 31 May 1930: doctorate (Angelicum, his doctoral thesis: De connexione inter resurrectionem Christi et nostram); from 1930: takes part in education of Dominican clerks in Olomouc; from 1931: occasional correspondent of theological review Na hlubinu; in 1935: sent to École Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jérusalem; during the Second World War: after the closure of Czech universities worked as substitute professor for diocesan seminarists; in 1948: publishes a translation of the New Testament into Czech (imprimatur was awarded on 21 May 1948); on 13 Apr 1950: interned; 5 Sept 1950-28 Feb 1951: clothes-presser in Králíky; 1 Mar-27 Jul 1951: clothes-presser in Osek; 28 Jul 1951-27 Aug 1952: warehouseman in the glass factory Union in Duchcov; 28 Aug 1952-15 Dec 1955: worker in the forest and field in the state farm in Želiv; after his release from internment: worked briefly as warehouseman in Frýdek, then as maintenance man in the House for abandoned children in Místek; May-July 1959: worked in hospital; after 1959: in Restaurants and Eating rooms in Ostrava; in the beginning of 1962: his health got extremely worse; in 1963: operation at the beginning of the year, needs permanent treatment, prosecution of State Security - StB (suspected of obstruction of state control of the Churches); on 16 Feb 1964: dies in Místek; on 20 Feb 1964: buried in Olomouc.

Keywords: Bible studies; New Testament; Translations of the New Testament in Czech language; Dominicans; Persecution