20 Facts About Pavol Hnilica

Pavol Hnilica was part of a network of Marian apparitions around the world.

Pavol Hnilica's organization was especially active around the promotion of the cult of the Lady of All Nations in the Netherlands.

Pavol Hnilica claimed to have been the Pope's personal delegate and that the Pope privately supports the apparitions.

In 1992, Pavol Hnilica tried to retrieve stolen documents from Roberto Calvi regarding the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano of which the Vatican Bank was a partial owner.

Pavol Hnilica was born in 1921 in Unatin, Czechoslovakia in the Archdiocese of Travni.

Pavol Hnilica began his theological studies in Slovakia and during this time, the communists, who took control of the government after World War II, shut down the religious orders from April 1950.

On 24 August 1951, Bishop Pavol Hnilica secretly consecrated Korec as bishop before he left the country, that December, by jumping in the Danube river swimming to freedom in the West.

Pavol Hnilica's activities were of particular interest to the Czechoslovak State Security as the regime was hostile towards the Catholic Church.

Pavol Hnilica was close to John Paul II, a fellow Slav, and to Sister Lucia and Saint Mother Teresa as well.

Pavol Hnilica using a copy of Pravda to hide the consecration prayer, successfully pulled off the consecration in harmony with John Paul.

Pavol Hnilica led a web of contested Marian movements and was their central figure.

Pavol Hnilica was a member of the "Queen of Peace" Committee, along with other supporters of the Medjugorje apparitions: Msgr.

Chris Maunder believes that Pavol Hnilica's support for Medjugorje was a burden because of his involvement with the Vatican Bank scandal from the 1980s of which he was acquitted.

The Bosnian War caused the decline in the financial revenues in Medjugorje, so Pavol Hnilica wanted to find a new source of financing.

Pavol Hnilica tried to create the "Medjugorje of America" by contacting Theresa Lopez, an alleged seer of Mary, mother of Jesus.

Pavol Hnilica met with Lopez in May 1992, and she regularly claimed to have visions of the Madonna.

In 1992, Pavol Hnilica was indicted for criminal involvement in the case of the collapse of the Banco Ambrosiano, of which the Vatican Bank was a partial owner.

At first, Pavol Hnilica claimed that he didn't want anything from Roberto Calvi's briefcase, but was hoping that Carboni would launch a campaign that would improve the Vatican's image.

Pavol Hnilica told Hnilica that the documents in the briefcase would clear the Vatican Bank of any wrongdoing.

Pavol Hnilica then said he was hoping he would get the documents in the briefcase and that it would clear the Vatican Bank in the event of Banco Ambrosiano collapse.