Political Persecution of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Slovenia after the Second World War

Nik Trontelj

Political Persecution of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Slovenia after the Second World War

DOI: 10.62983/rn2865.25a.5

Keywords: School Sisters of Notre Dame, political persecution, trial, nationalization, communism

Abstract:
The thematic context of the article is research on the revolutionary and political persecution of priests, religious men and women of the Catholic Church in Slovenia during and after the Second World War. Among the persecuted religious women were the School Sisters of Notre Dame. The aim of this paper is to present the different forms of their post-war persecution. For the sake of building socialism, the post-war authorities nationalized most of the convent houses of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Slovenia and beyond. The procedure was always the same: first the sisters were banned from educational and training services, followed by the nationalization of their properties. Several individual religious women have also experienced persecution in the form of interrogations, arrests and court trials. Special attention is paid to the case of the show trial of two sisters who were sentenced to imprisonment in 1947 in Novo mesto.