Magyar News, 1997. szeptember-1998. augusztus (8. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1997-11-01 / 3. szám
BLESSED ŐZSÉB (Eusebius) - c. 1200 - 1270. Founder of the only monastic order of Hungarian origin, the Hermits of St. Paul. On the basis of a vision, he collected around him the hermits living scattered in the Pilis Mountains. The order spread to other countries, including Poland, where it is m charge of the Polish national shrine of Czestochowa. ST. ELIZABETH (Isabella) OF PORTUGAL - 1271 - 1336. She was named after her great-aunt, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. Married to Denis, King of Portugal who lived a profligate life and had several children out of wedlock. Elizabeth raised them as her own and prayed and did penance for her husband’s conversion. She brought about the reconciliation of her husband and her son, and later, between her son and son-in-law. After the death of Denis, she gave away her wealth and joined the Third Order of St. Francis in Coimbra. BLESSED HEDVIG (or Jadwiga) -c. 1373 - 1399. Daughter of King Louis the Great. Crowned queen of Poland, she married Wladislas of Jagelló, Prince of Lithuania, who was still a pagan. She converted him and his people, and brought about reconciliation between the Lithuanian and Polish peoples. She founded a college for Lithuanian theologians in Prague, and prevailed upon the pope to open a theological faculty at the university of Kracow. Hedvig cared for the sick, and tried to ease the misery of the peasants. St. John Capistrano in the battle ST. JOHN CAPISTRANO - 1386 - 1456. Though bom, educated and entered the Franciscan order in Italy, he is still revered as a “Hungarian” saint. Following the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, the pope asked Capistrano to preach a crusade against them, and in June of 1456 ordered the ringing of church bells and the recitation of the Angelus at noon to plead with God for a Christian victory. John Capistrano joined Janos Hunyadi in organizing the country's defense. At Nándorfehérvár (today’s Belgrade) thenforces faced an overwhelming Turkish army. Capistrano's inspiration and initiative led to a great Hungarian victory and the Turks withdrew. The Pope attributed the victory to the prayers said in response to the noon bells and fixed the date of the feast of the Transfiguration for August 6th, the day he received the good news of the Christian victory. But both Janos Hunyadi and John Capistrano succumbed to the plague which broke out after the battle, and Capistrano died on October 23rd. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 began 500 years to the day after his death. BLESSED PELBÁRT TEMESVÁRI 1435- 1504. A famous Franciscan preacher and teacher, he wrote a number of books to help the less educated clergy prepare their sermons. These books became very popular and were reprinted many times. He did not shrink from castigating even the royal court for its moral lapses. Among those in the canonization process we already mentioned Bishop Vilmos Apor in the first part of this series. There are two more we would like to tell you about. DR. LÁSZLÓ BATTHÁNYSTRATTMANN - 1870 - 1931 - An eye doctor from a historically prominent family of the higher nobility, he established two hospitals for eye patients at his own expense, and performed eye surgery for the poor for free. He performed some 30,000 eye operaitions, always praying during each one, and caring for the spiritual welfare of his patients by giving each of them some religious literature or at least a holy card with a prayer. He and his wife had 11 children. With his wife, son Ödön and sister-in-law, Dr. Batthany-Strattmann joined the Third Qrder of St. Francis. He died of cancer, not allowing the doctors to give him painkillers because "They gave no painkilling injection to our Lord Jesus on the cross either, only gall." A number of miraculous cures have been attributed to his intercession. Cardinal Joseph Mindszenty in 1956 CARDINAL MINDSZENTY - 1892 - 1975. Of peasant stock, Joseph Mindszenty was first persecuted by the short-lived Communist regime of 1919, then imprisoned by the Nazis and finally arrested by the Communists, brainwashed with drugs and subjected to a mock trial. He was tortured during his 8 years in prison, and Bishop Fulton Sheen called him a "dry martyr." Released by the Freedom Fighters in 1956, Cardinal Mindszenty took refuge in the American embassy in Budapest when the Revolution was crushed by Soviet tanks. After 15 years there, he left the country at the Pope's request. In his 80's by then, he traveled around the world, visiting Hungarians on all continents, and preaching fidelity to the faith and their national heritage. He was temporarily buried in Austria, but with the change of the poltical climate, his remains were brought back to Esztergom, his original see. 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