Chapel of the Sainted Seven and St. Zdislava in Vír
It is very rare to encounter the Sainted Seven in Bohemia. Probably the only chapel consecrated to them is the one built in 1998 in Vír at Vysočina, a village under the barrage of a well-known dam.
The Sainted Seven is a collective name for seven saints, i.e. St. Cyril and St. Methodius along with their disciples, saint Gorazd, Clement, Naum, Sáva and Angelarius. After being chased out of Great Moravia, they founded a Slavic divine service centre in Ohrid in today’s Macedonia. St. Clement became the bishop of Ohrid and is buried there.
The consecration of the chapel to the heralds of faith and their disciples symbolises the yearning and enjoining for renewal and growth in the Vír village and around; St. Zdislava, born in nearby Křižanov, is the patroness of families and the ill. The interesting interior decorations and paintings of Jesus on the Cross, the Grievous Virgin Mary and the Sainted Seven is the painter Zdirad Jan Křtitel Čech, a knight of the Maltese order.
