Michael Molecz

Michael Molecz first attended grammar school in Hollabrunn and then transferred to the Elisabethgymnasium in Rainergasse in Vienna, where he also graduated. He then entered the Viennese seminary and, after completing his theological studies, was ordained a priest in St. Stephen's Cathedral in 1908. He then initially worked as a co-operator (chaplain) in Payerbach, before being transferred to his home parish of St. Anthony of Padua in Favoriten in 1911, where he worked beneficially for seventeen years. During the First World War, he served as an imperial and royal.

In 1925-1937, he took on the role of chaplain to the Rhenania Vienna middle school fraternity. On June 27, 1927, the Rhenania awarded him the fraternity's ribbon of honor for this commitment.

After the invasion of Austria by the German Wehrmacht in March 1938, he was targeted by the Gestapo. He was arrested on December 10, 1942 on the grounds of "deliberately listening to foreign radio stations and deliberately disseminating news of those likely to endanger the resistance of the German people" and sentenced to four years and six months in prison on May 21, 1943 for "broadcasting crimes". He remained in prison until the end of April 1945.

After the war, he initially took on the position of chaplain at the Sisters of Mercy in Irenental (Tullnerbach, Lower Austria) and from 1958 worked in the parish of St. Leopold in Vienna II.