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

1959-12-01 / 12. szám

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FRATERNITY

as well. To Rakoczy it was a political struggle only on which hé had entered, but not so did it appear to the Hungarian peasantry who had by

Francis Rakoczy II

now come to think of political independence from Austria and freedom of worship and conscience as one and the same thing.

Leopold I died in 1705 and his successor, Joseph I, sought to end the war by promising to grant religious freedom to all his domains. But no one believed Habsburg promises by now, and so