Múčková, Margita
Margita Múčková (* 1954) is from Senec. While studying at secondary school, she met with professor Ivan Gróf, a Salesian priest who worked with young people. He gradually involved her in spreading the gospel during communism. At that time, Margita Múčková's activities involved copying spiritual literature and disseminating it. In the last year of her study (1972), she took part in spiritual exercises with Ivan Gróf in Pezinok. In 1975, Gróf was detained for 48 hours by the secret police. During his detention, the police had access to his documents, which contained information about his contacts and collaborators. As a result, the secret police turned their attention also to Mrs. Múčková, who later worked in Medika (a company supplying medicines to pharmacies and hospitals).
On 10 October 1975, at 1:00 pm, police officers came to her place of employment and detained Mrs. Múčková, explaining that she was to be accussed as a witness (this followed the detention of Mr. Gróf). At only 20 years old, she was held in the police station and subjected to interrogation. During this hearing, they screamed at her and questioned her about her brother, who secretly studied theology. They also asked her about Gróf and their activities together. Mrs. Múčková answered the questions, signed the minutes, and was allowed to go home. Later she continued Christian activities with her husband, but they were under surveillance by the secret police.
As Mrs. Múčková remembers: "We never criticised the state, nor did we even sign the Charter 77. Professor Gróf said that our policy is the policy of the Gospel, and if they will persecute us for that, so be it. But anti-state activities, or materials, or swearing ... those things were not done. We tried to distance ourselves from those things."
Mrs. Múčková remained at home on maternity leave for an extended period, and her children were also at home because she refused to send them to be educated at the socialist kindergarten. She was active in the secret church until the revolution. Her husband died tragically in 1995.
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