On 6 Jul 2003, Czech Info Center wrote: > I am looking for information about Karl Kaspar, was a stained-glass artist in Prague around 1880. He just may be a relative, perhaps a close relative, of Cardinal Karl (or, more properly Karel) Kaspar, who came from a glass-working and decorating family. See the brief biography below, from Salvador Miranda's website at Florida International University. Regards, Frank Young tipcat@wam.umd.edu 703-527-7684 Post Office Box 2793, Kensington, Maryland 20891 "Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate... Nunc cognosco ex parte" *** KASPAR, Karel (1870-1941) Birth. May 16, 1870, Mirosov, archdiocese of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Education. Seminary of Plzen, Plzen; Pontifical Roman Athenaeum of S. Apollinare, Rome. Priesthood. Ordained, February 25, 1893, Rome. Pastoral work in Sevopin, 1893-1895. Further studies, 1895-1898. Pastoral work in archdiocese of Prague and cathedral canon, 1899-1920. Episcopate. Elected titular bishop of Betsaida and appointed auxiliary of Hradec-Kalove, March 8, 1920. Consecrated, April 11, 1920, by Franziskus Kord c, archbishop of Prague. Transferred to diocese of Hradec-Kalove, June 13, 1921. Promoted to metropolitan see of Prague, Czechoslovakia, October 22, 1931. Military vicar of Czechoslovakia. Cardinalate. Created cardinal priest, December 16, 1935; received red hat and title of SS. Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio, December 19, 1935. Participated in the conclave of 1939. Death. April 21, 1941, Prague. Buried, metropolitan cathedral, Prague.