Visited:30. 9. 2021
History:Already at the beginning of the 17th century and during the 17th and 18th centuries, especially in the Sedlec suburb of Kadan, there were countless crowds of pilgrims who visited the pilgrimage site in the Franciscan monastery of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, located under the Holy Mountain in the area behind the Kadan suburban walls. The Chapel of St. John the Baptist was built in 1641 in the early Baroque style by pilgrims from the town of Klášterec nad Ohří. It was intended to serve them during the heavy traffic of the pilgrimage site of the Fourteen Holy Helpers as their own meeting place and as a place for pious waiting. This so-called Klášterec chapel, which the citizens of Klášterec also undertook to maintain regularly, is still located in Jan Šverma Street in the neighbourhood of house no. 610. From later times there are even written records of a dispute between the town of Kadani and the Franciscan brothers over the ownership rights to this chapel. Perhaps the greatest influx of pilgrims was experienced by the Franciscan monastery of Kadan and its surroundings in 1713. At that time, the entire Franciscan Order celebrated the canonization of the Italian Poor Clare (a member of the Order of the Poor Sisters of St. Clare - the female branch of the Franciscan Friars Minor) of St. Catherine of Bologna (legacy), canonized a year earlier, in 1712. According to historical sources, twenty thousand pilgrims were expected to arrive for the celebrations in the Church of the Fourteen Holy Helpers on the grounds of the Franciscan monastery in Kadan. Later on, the pilgrimage site was also visited by hundreds of pilgrims, especially from the Kadaň region, i.e. from the Ohře and Liboca rivers, the Ore Mountains and the Doupov Hills, but also from the Žatec plains. Other popular and well-attended pilgrimage events used to be the Franciscan feast of the Portiuncula, which always fell on the 2nd of August of the year, or the Eucharistic procession, which was always held in Kadan on the Feast of Corpus Christi.
Source:https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaple_svat%C3%A9ho_Jana_K%C5%99titele_(Kada%C5%88)
Impressions:A beautiful baroque chapel, which I wonder what its original furnishings were.
