Verbum was a Slovak language magazine focused primarily on writings of the Catholic intelligentsia.
[1] Verbum was founded in May 1946 at the parish in Liptovský Hrádok, by the Catholic modernist poet Janko Silan.
The Magazine took contributions from the whole spectrum of Catholic intellectuals, many of whom were previously editors of journals prior to World War II.
The most important contributors included: In addition, the magazine also created a publishing house Verbum, in Košice.
Verbum was instructed by communist officials to be destroyed in March 1948 (marked activity contributed Jozef Straka, among other things, arrest of Bishop John Vojtaššáka).