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As a newly ordained priest Anton
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steel plant. At the same time he secretly studied theology and managed to pass the state exam from the
English and German language. He twice tried to unsuccessfully enrol to study at the seminary in Bratislava. As a Salesian he professed his final vows secretly on 9 August 1964. In 1969, during the
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in 1989 he started caring for people on the margins of society. As a pensioner he became a board member of a Konto nádeje and the Slovak
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Security constantly watched his work with the youth and as a result in 1974 he was transferred outside Bratislava to the parish of Pernek where he kept being visited by many people and also secret Salesians. After three years he was transferred to
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with the purpose to educate the poor youth. Because in 1950 the communist regime dissolved all religious communities, he was able to complete his secondary education in 1951 in
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as a lay person only. As it was not possible for him to study theology at that time, on 9 April 1951 attempted (as many other young people led by a
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