Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1958-10-01 / 10. szám
16 FRATERNITY denounced him to the Turks as a spy. The Turks dragged him from one prison-cell to another. His friends found that what the Turks were really Stephen Kis Szegedi Pioneer of the Hungarian Reformation wanting was to work up a feeling of pity for their prisoner so that they could exact a good ransom for his release. They actually demanded what was the huge sum of 1,000 florins in exchange for his freedom. Szegedi’s friends found, moreover, that they had to deal with greedy men who knew how to get their price. The Turks exhibited Szegedi in town after town, where, bound with chains hand and foot, he was allowed to preach the Gospel in the market square. But as the people’s heart bled for him, the Bey kept putting up his price. In the end, Szegedi’s own poverty-stricken parishioners gathered together the
