Od „Babylonský” řek k Vltavě. Exilové působení P. Josefa Čupra SJ (1934-2019)

The study informs about the work of the Jesuit P. Josef Čupr (1934–2019) in exile. The native of Býkovice studied civil engineering in Brno, however, after several years of practice, he decided to make his life plan come true – to study theology and become a priest. Czechoslovakia did not become the place of realization and thus Čupr joined the priestly exile in Rome, where he was ordained, and not long after joined the Societas Iesu. He was allowed to return to his homeland only after the fall of the Iron Curtain, when between 1991 and 1998 he was the head of the Czech Province of the Society of Jesus. For the purpose of this study, sources from state and private archives were collected. The primary data were then compared with specialist literature in order to present the exile events of P. Čupra against the background of that time. By following his life in exile and work as a Jesuit priest, the study also aims to find out the answer to why Čupr became the Czech provincial of the Society of Jesus in the 1990s and what were the starting points for his appointment.