The primary mission of the Crusaders at the time of their founding was hospital service. They served God through their neighbors. At that time, hospital service was understood somewhat differently. Today, we primarily think of a hospital as a place for the sick. For St. Agnes’s contemporaries, however, it was not only about caring for the sick; they also took care of orphans, the elderly, people with various disabilities, and provided shelter for pilgrims and later also for students.
In the period after the Hussite wars had subsided, at a time of great shortage of priests, they took over abandoned parishes in the Czech lands and intensely devoted themselves to spiritual administration in the parishes. The order strives to fulfill both of these missions, spiritual and hospital, to this day. Throughout the Czech Republic and also in Vienna, they engage in parish pastoral care. Although the order no longer has its own hospital, it is the patron of a department of the Sisters of Charity hospital in Prague under Petřín, to which it provides funds for the purchase of new equipment.
The Girls' Catholic High School, which caters to girls with various health and social disabilities, is located in the area near the Charles Bridge. At the same location, the Crusader Care Service and the Crusader Home Hospice of St. Agnes of Bohemia operate. The newest activity is the establishment of the order’s college, the juvenate, which provides accommodation for students studying at Prague universities. In their monastery in Český Krumlov, there are facilities for the St. Agnes of Bohemia Secondary Restoration School. Caring for cultural and historical heritage is, after all, an integral, albeit demanding, activity of the order.
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