Urn with Vaclav Havel´s ashes placed in family tomb in Prague

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published: 04.01.2012, 12:14 | updated: 04.01.2012 12:26:59

Prague - The urn with the ashes of Vaclav Havel, former Czechoslovak and Czech president who died on December 18 aged 75, was placed in the family tomb at Prague´s Vinohrady cemetery today.

The private commemorative act was attended by widow Dagmar Havlova, Havel´s brother Ivan with wife Dagmar, Havel´s closest aides as well as representatives of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Charles Borromee who were taking care of Havel at the end of his life.

A Catholic priest spoke at the ceremony that was held on the 15th anniversary of Havel´s marrying his second wife, Dagmar.

Havel´s first wife Olga, who died in 1996, and other members of the Havel family are also buried in the tomb.

Vaclav Havel´s name has been cut in the tombstone that is made of granite from Mrakotin, south Bohemia, from which the obelisk in the 3rd courtyard of Prague Castle, the presidential seat, designed by Slovenian architect Josip Plecnik in the early 1920s, is also made.

Havel left an impression of his thumb on the tombstone.

The funeral of Havel, former dissident, a playwright and the last Czechoslovak president and first Czech president (1989-2003), was held in St Vitus´s Cathedral at Prague Castle on December 23. It was followed by a family ceremony in the Prague-Strasnice crematorium on the same day.

Author: CTK
www.ctk.cz

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