Johannes Tschandek

Tschandek was born in Višnja Gora and attended school in Ljubljana.

The most important religious figure of this era in Slovenian territory was the bishop of Ljubljana, Thomas Chrön.

Chrön was unable to realize his plan to publish a catechism, a prayer book, and a hymnal, and to establish a press, but he did succeed in having 3,000 copies of the book Evangelia inu lystuvi (Gospels and Epistles) published at his expense in Graz in 1613.

In 1615, a Slovene translation of Peter Canisius's Catechismus minor was published in Augsburg (titled Catechiſmus Petri Caniſij Soc.

Skusi malane Figure napréj poſtavlen 'The Little Catechism of Peter Canisius SJ Presented with Illustrations').