We are Veronika & Šimon Sádovský, two Slovaks, married for just over 4
years. Currently, we live in Bratislava, Slovakia, but we often spend our weekends
with out parents in the Slovak countryside.
Šimon studied computer science, earning his PhD three years ago and Veronika graduated in marketing communication. Veronika is running social network communication for a major chain of supermarkets in Slovakia. Šimon works as a software developer in Vienna and lectures a bit at Comenius University in Bratislava in the field of computer science. Besides our full-time jobs, we're active in the Hanus’ Fellowship, a leading Slovak Catholic academic fellowship – Šimon is lecturing at a year long academic program on various topics in Theology & Philosohy, (e.g. on his favorite, Orthodoxy, by G. K. Chesterton). Veronika used to lead a design team during the Hanus’ Days Festival, which aims to bring the Catholic view into Slovak public sphere. Veronika has always dreamed about becoming a painter/illustrator and Šimon, in the long term, sees himself engaged fully in public life in the intersection of academia and politics.
Describe your FIAT project. What challenge or gap does it address? Whom
does it serve? What excites you most about it?
For a long time, Šimon had the idea of wearing a t-shirt that said 'Memento Mori' on Ash Wednesday to work to communicate this idea to all his colleagues. He used to joke about that, but Veronika took it as a challenge and on his birthday gave him that very t-shirt plus added the phrase, 'Ora et Labora.' Wearing these t-shirts ultimately led to establishing a family company, which we call [ memento. ] and aims to bring eternal wisdom of Catholic Tradition into our times, producing quality clothing and designs. For now we operate within Slovakia and thanks to our FIAT mentorship we are able to address the business part of the project much better. To see our work you can take a look at our website at https://memento.lat/ (in Slovak, but you can use some auto-
translate tool or learn Slovak, which is definitely worth the effort) and follow us on Facebook -
https://www.facebook.com/memento.lat - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/memento.lat
How would you describe the TBP experience?
TBP Project makes Theology & Philosophy enjoyable, without sacrificing depth and
without reducing it to fun. It’s great that it takes place outside of a classroom into the places where the events we are discussing actually happened. We have profoundly grown in our intellectual knowledge of the Catholic faith and can see more of it’s immense richness. On top of that, we had great Immersion group with whom we shared a week of true friendship. We are grateful to still be in touch with some of people we met, despite living across the ocean.
What surprised you the most on your Immersion?
How well it connected all dimensions of the person – mind, soul and body.
TBP aims to transform the lives of those who spend a week with us in the living classroom of Rome. Do you agree with that? If so, can you give an example or describe 1-3 things/ideas/skills you gained from TBP that you still use now?
I (Šimon), especially appreciated personal growth sessions on very practical topics like how to structure your goals and how to pursue them. It helped me to organize my day to day activity a lot and be more focused to what is important.
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