Near the Emauzy Monastery once stood a tall cross on top of a walled pedestal that was said to hold a treasure inside. At night small blue flames surrounded the pedestal to guard it and signify the presence of the treasure. Long ago, when Protestants had to hastily flee abroad after the Battle of the White Mountain, their clergymen contemplated how best to preserve their parishes‘wealth. They reasoned that according to the proverb it is always darkest under the candlestick and hid the treasure into the cross’s pedestal, which they hollowed out. Upon their hoped-for
return from exile, they would retrieve the treasure and pass it on to their Protestant parishes. However, that never happened and when the clergymen died in exile the small blue flames began guarding the treasure. Over the ages the cross slowly crumbled and the pedestal became derelict. One day a bricklayer trimming the pedestal discovered the treasure to his tremendous joy and secretly hid it away. He later covertly took the treasure with him to an unknown foreign land. There is no trace left today of the peculiar cross that had stood near the Emauzy Monastery.
