Background
Edmund Pascha was born in 1714 at Kroměříž, the Moravian musical centre of that time.
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He studied philosophy at Beckov (Western Slovakia) and theology at Uherské Hradiště (Eastern Moravia).
Career
He used the pen name Claudianus Ostern. At the age of 17, he entered the Franciscan monastery at Hlohovec (Western Slovakia). In addition to his native language he also managed Latin, German, Italian and some Hungarian.
He practised music and preaching in several Franciscan monasteries of the order’s Salvatorian province, notably at Prešov (Eastern Slovakia) and lastly at Žilina (Northwestern Slovakia), where he died on May 4, 1772, after many years of painful illness.
