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Dominik Trčka was born on July 6, 1886 in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí (today the Czech Republic), the last of seven children.
In 1902, Dominik entered the Redemptorist community in Bilsko, Poland, and in August of 1904, he made his profession. In religious life he was known as Methodius. He then returned to Obořiště in what is now the Czech Republic to study philosophy and theology in preparation for ordination to the priesthood. He was ordained in Prague on July 17, 1910.
After ordination, Fr. Methodius gave parish missions. However, in 1919, he was sent to Slovakia to serve Eastern Rite Catholics and study the Eastern Rite liturgy in Lviv, Ukraine. As a missionary, he established a convent of Redemptorist members who were Eastern Rite Catholics.
In World War I, he did nursing at Pribram Hospital in the Czech Republic, focusing special attention on Slovenian and Croatian people and those who had been wounded in the war.
In 1935, Fr. Methodius was appointed the vice-provincial of the Byzantine Redemptorists that had recently been reorganized.
In 1948, Communists took over Czechoslovakia, and persecution of the the Catholic Church began. In 1950, religious communities such as the Redemptorists were suppressed. On April 13 of 1950, Holy Thursday that year, Fr. Methodius and other Redemptorists were arrested. In his April 12 trial, he was accused of attempting to obtain false paper to flee the country and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. During his imprisonment, he was frequently tortured and subjected to brutal interrogation. One of the those imprisoned with Fr. Methodius reported that the guards subjected the religious with intense light non-stop.
In 1958, Fr. Methodius was caught singing Christmas carols and put in solitary confinement as punishment. On March 23, 1959, he was found dead from pneumonia in his solitary confinement cell at Leopoldov Prison.
Pope John Paul II beatified Methodius on November 4, 2001. Blessed Methodius Dominik’s feast day is March 23. He is venerated in both the Roman Catholic and Byzantine Catholic Churches.
