Borromean Sister Eliška Šrubařová was my lifelong inspiration and role model
Stáhnout obrázek
Oldřiška Šťávová, née Vyklická, was born on 25 July 1947 in Plaveč near Znojmo as the fourth of five siblings. She grew up in modest circumstances. Her mother was a homemaker, and her father worked as a blacksmith, later as a maintenance worker and repairman at the château in Plaveč. In the autumn of 1950, the Sisters of Charity of St. Charles Borromeo (the Borromean Sisters) came to the Plaveč château and established a retirement home there. Its director became Sister Eliška Šrubařová. The originally dilapidated building gradually developed into a well-functioning institution, which also became a center of social life in the village. Sister Eliška Šrubařová had a profound influence on the witness. Oldřiška Šťávová regularly went to the château and gained a great deal of practical experience there. After completing primary school, she began working at Gala Znojmo, where she was employed in shoe production. At the age of sixteen, she met her future husband, and together they began building a house. She married at nineteen, and at twenty her first daughter was born. After the birth of her first child, she started working as a nursing orderly at the retirement home in the Plaveč château. She worked at the institution for approximately ten years, during which time three more children were born to her. Due to deteriorating health, she went on disability pension around 1977. She remained in contact with Sister Eliška Šrubařová even after the latter was forced, due to the political situation, to step down as director of the retirement home and move from Plaveč to Hradiště near Znojmo. In 2025, Oldřiška Šťávová was living in Znojmo.
