St. Adalbert’s Society (SAS) is the largest and oldest association of Catholics in Slovakia. Over the 150 years of its existence the society has overcome many hardships related to its emergence: oppression due to Magyarization, two world wars, reprisals by the communist regime, as well as obstacles created by the new beginning after 1990.   SAS was officially established at its first general assembly on 14th September 1870. The Catholic priest and linguist Andrej Radlinský was a crucial figure in the birth of the society. His goals included the spread of education, to deepen religious life and to revive the idea...