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Even after 75 years, the mysterious phenomenon which occurred during a sermon by parish priest Josef Toufar in a small church in the village of Číhošt’ in the Highlands, remains unexplained. The communist secret police tortured the priest to death and launched a terror campaign against the Catholic Church.
Shortly before Christmas, on December 11th 1949, parishioners at a church in the village of Číhošť in Vysočina claimed to have witnessed a cross moving of its own volition during the morning mass celebrated by parish priest Josef Toufar.
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