The Spanish flu after World War I meant a global threat. It spread from the United
States of America and took between 20 and 50 million victims, in some estimations twice that
much. The first news of the disease in Slovenia dates to July 1918, that is during the second
wave of its spreading. The paper presents the aspect of the Slovenian Church leaders on the
disease and its dimensions in some Church educational institutions in Slovenia. Frequent
contacts among the institutions were a favourable circumstance for a relatively fast and
vast spreading of the disease. The most affected was the Salesian College of Veržej, in that
period destined to the formation of the Austrian aspirants for the Salesian life, where from
the very beginning a lack of fundamental food and difficult economic situation were met.
Mainly young members of the community turned sick, and four of the staff members, the
age between 29 and 34 years, died.
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