Felix Maria Davídek - founder of the underground church in Czechoslovakia

January 12 marks the centenary of the birth of Felix Maria Davídek a secretly ordained bishop and founder of the underground church in Czechoslovakia. His community, the Koinotés, which was founded in the 1960s, created an alternative to the official, very closely watched Church. However in his efforts to spread the faith, he went against the wishes of the Roman Catholic Church.