Csernus Lukács - Triff Zsigmond: The Cemeteries of Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)

raris. The female figure on the tomb was made by Rai- mond Gaiard, while the monument itself is the work of architect Frigyes Feszi.

it deserves mention that the crypt of the Pest Franciscans held, under the inscription G. B. L, the executed Lajos Batthyány, until his remains were transferred to a more fitting location. The body of Ferenc Lamberg, killed in 1848, found its temporary resting place nearby, in the church of the Servite order.

A recent trend is that a growing number of church crypts are used as ossuaries. One source of financing the reconstruction of St Stephen’s Basilica is the conversion of its undercroft into a public urn site. Newly built churches are also provided with crypts designed for the accommodation of urns (examples include St Gellért Church in Kelenföld or the Church of Hungarian Saints in Lágymányos).

A fitting place to take our leave of the dead buried outside cemeteries is the so-called Fuit Stone in the Városliget (City Park), which marks the grave of a departed citizen of Pest whose only wish was to serve, in his death as well as his life, those he had loved, without any trace of self-glorification. It is not his doing that we remember the name of the man who was once Jakab Horuáth, lawyer.

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