The tollman bought him a new train ticket to send him to Turin and this remained a tale he often repeated to demonstrate the goodness of God.

[2][1] He was then sent to central Moravia where he taught religious education and there oversaw the construction of the Saint John Bosco church in Ostrava.

On 23 June 1954 the supreme court sentenced him to two decades in prison (meaning he would be released in 1979) for serving as one of the Church's spies.

[7][1] In June 1960 he was amnestied but was forbidden to resume his clerical activities which led him to work as a plumber and construction laborer.

In February 1962 he suffered a heart attack (remaining in hospital until 1963) and so was allowed to still retain his position but retire from official duties in November 1962 to a home for priests in Tábor in 1963 and then in Radvanov in 1964.

Pope John XXIII had invited Trochta in 1962 to attend the Second Vatican Council but the Czech authorities did not grant him permission to travel to Rome.

In February 1969 he led a pilgrimage to Rome to commemorate the death of Saint Cyril and on 30 January 1971 met with Paul VI in another private audience.

[1] On 29 October 1972 he attended the beatification of Michele Rua and on 15 February 1973 met with Paul VI in another private audience.

On 6 April he arrived in Rome at the Leonardo da Vinci Airport where Casaroli and Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio greeted him.

[2] Trochta had undergone an operation in March 1974 but a week later on 5 April a communist official named Dlabal came to see him in the morning for a quasi-interrogation.

[6] Local Church historian Jaroslav Sebek said in 2017 that the cause had no chance of ever beginning since Trochta had been "discredited" by the communist secret police (StB).