Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1959-08-01 / 8. szám

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those who did not agree with any of these forms of the faith. As an example of his liberal views, it is interesting to note, for example, that one of his chancellors was a Catholic and another was a sectist. He even let the Jesuits return to Transylvania, and supported financially the ministers of all denominations in his princedom. But Gabriel Bethlen felt compelled to enter into the thirty-year war in order to recover for his ProtGabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania

estant brethren in Hungary the rights they were now fast losing. On three occasions he sent armies against the Habsburgs, and each time was successful (1621, 1624, 1626). He then concluded a peace which guaranteed the reapplication of the Peace of Vienna to Hungarian people everywhere.

After Bethlen’s death, George Rakoczy I (1630-1648) became the protagonist of Hungarian religious freedom, becoming known as the great Protestant prince of eastern Europe. The