A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historiae Literarum et Artium, 1. (Szeged, 1997)

Péter László: A jezsuiták Szegeden

P. Vargát. A segítőtestvérek közül is itt dolgozhatott sekrestyésként még fráter Búzás és fráter Miklós János (*1910). 1974-ben egy évig itt lelkipásztorkodott P. Gyulai Sándor is. Később tőlük is egyházmegyei papok vették át a lelkipásztorkodást. A jezsuiták 1989-ben térhettek vissza templomukba. Szeptembertől a Szent József templomban ismét ők szolgálnak. Először Závodni Kálmán, majd Turzó István és Bálint József. 1996-ban a templomigazgató P. Illés Albert. Ismét tanítanak jezsuiták (Hofher József, Somfai Béla, Varga B. József, Weissmahr Béla) a szegedi a hittudományi főiskolán.

31 The Jesuits in Szeged László Péter When the Ottoman Turkish occupation of Szeged came to an end, the Jesuits arrived there very early, in 1962; however, their first attempt at settling there was not successful, and they left the town in 1712. In 1919, when the Upper Northern region of pre-war Hungary was occupied by the Czechs, the novices moved from Nagyszombat (present-day Trnava in Slovakia) to Szeged and, in 1920, they were followed by the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jesuit Theological Academy of Pozsony (present-day Bratislava in Slovakia). The novices moved on from Szeged to Érd in 1921, all the same, Bishop Gyula Glattfelder, diocesan of Csanád put Jesuit teachers in charge of the Theological Academy in 1930 and, from 1935 on, even the theologians of the Jesuit order were educated there. In 1931, a Roman Catholic church, St. Joseph's was built for the Jesuit order (at No.3, György Street [present-day Dani Street]). In 1935, it was in the villa of the Jesuit order that Jenő Kerkai launched the Movement for Roman Catholic Single Young Men (better known by its Hungarian acronym, KALOT). In 1939, the building of St. Aloysius College (Aloysianum) was completed. In 1944, the Jesuits saved the lives of some persecuted persons, they could not, however, prevent the transportation of József Balogh, the editor of a Catholic review and St. Augustine's translator. In 1948, after the Communist take-over, the Communist Party seized by force and occupied the ground floor of the Aloysianum. Early in 1949, just before he himself left Hungary on 25 March, the Rector of the Theological Academy, Antal Fabry organized how to save the philosophers and theologians of the Jesuit order, by sending or smuggling them abroad, to Western Europe. On 10 June 1950 the State Security Service evicted the members of the Jesuit order, and banned them to Jászberény or Mezőkövesd, small country towns they were not allowed to leave. Several members of the Jesuit order were interned in camps or imprisoned. The survivors were not allowed to return to Szeged before 1989. At present, the members of the Jesuit order officiate again in St. Joseph's Church. There are also Jesuit teachers giving courses at the Inter-diocesan Theological Academy. 31 A szeged-csanádi egyházmegye névtára. 1996. 9, 14. 21