„I am grateful to the God, I have passed trough the suffering.“
Jindřich Hanuš was born on 27th September in 1928 in a small village Lipí in Náchod area. His parents Jindřich and Anežka, born Lichá, were factory workers. Both his parents devotedly believed in God, especially his mother. Jindřich Hanuš knew he would become priest in his very youth when he was 14 years old. He was ordained as a priest of the Czechoslovakian Hussite Church immediately after he graduated at Theological faculty in 1954. As the auxiliary priest he served in several religious communities. In 1956 he got married to Libuše Řepková, they have two daughters Libuše a Jindřiška. The State Security spied on him systematically from 1957 because of his preaching, his lecturing at theological conferences and his statements regarding the teaching of religion of children. In 1959 Hanuš was detained by the State Security for sedition and later sentenced to 8 months in prison. Most of the sentence he had been detained in Mírov prison where he actively pastorated inmates. His first daughter was born while he was still in prison. He was released after 8 months and started to work as a factory worker. Hanus had strived for returning of his state license for priesthood in which he finally succeeded in 1964. He had served as a priest in one small community of the Czechoslovakian Hussite Church again. The State Security repeatedly tried to gain him for collaboration. He refused even in spite of a promise made by the State Security he would became a bishop. Nowadays he lives with his wife in Mladá Boleslav. They have celebrated a golden marriage in 2006.
