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Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk
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How it came to be
On 15 April 1719 the tomb of the 14th-century martyr John of Nepomuk was opened in St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, and tissue believed to be his tongue was declared incorrupt. That year Václav Vejmluva, Cistercian abbot of Žďár nad Sázavou, began planning a pilgrimage church in the saint's honour.
It was designed by the architect Jan Blažej Santini Aichel and was his last work. After the legend of five stars that appeared over the saint's body, the plan is a five-pointed star, with five niches and ten radial axes ordering church and cloister. The church was consecrated right after John's beatification in 1720, and work went on until 1727.
A fire on 17 July 1784 burned the roof and ambulatory, and in 1792 restoration was allowed on condition that it no longer serve as a pilgrimage church. It became state property in 1953 and was returned to the Catholic Church in 2014. It was inscribed in 1994.
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