overview about the place The Saint Charles Borromeo Home is a church institution where four different worlds are joined to create quite a unique project. These are the Congregation of Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo, elderly and sick people, convicted women, and lay staff. These four worlds meet within the Home to create an environment of mutual help and cooperation. The Home’s mission is to care for the aged and infirm. history “There never have been and never will be people free of hardship, deprivation and injustice…” The cradle of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo lies in Nancy, Lorraine, where the first nuns came together in 1652 to face, with their bare hands, the plague, cholera and misery of every kind left behind by the Thirty Years’ War. In 1837, this religious community put down its first roots in Klárov, Prague, and the Sisters of Mercy of St. Charles Borromeo Hospital was founded soon afterwards. In 1844, the growing number of nuns allowed them to extend their activities to include the Prague district of Řepy. It was there that the sisters bought the former Taicman farmstead, where they erected a new building and a church. The original purpose of this orphanage gradually changed and the building housed a women’s prison for more than 83 years. The sisters were very successful in their work with the inmates, and enjoyed the respect and gratitude of those to whom they lent a helping hand. Even so, in 1948 they were driven out and sent to the border region for forty long years. The building was confiscated and began to be used by the Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, the site generally fell into disrepair, and the church became a garage for storing tractors and other equipment… With the societal changes that came after 1989, the devastated building was completely renovated and fitted out to minister to the sick and elderly and, in keeping with its history, also to give female convicts the opportunity to work together in caring for the elderly.