William Penn Life, 2000 (35. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
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Continued ofrom Page 16 Stephen founded many dioceses during his reign and organized the church. He created the diocese of Esztergom, where he was bom and crowned and which remains the seat of the Hungarian Catholic church. He established bishoprics in Vac and Eger in the northern part of the country. He placed Transdanubia under the authority of the Gyor, Veszprém and Pecs bishoprics. The eastern parts of the country were divided among Csanad, Vac, Bihar, Transylvania and Kalocsa. It was in Kalocsa that the first cathedral was built by Stephen. Astric, the abbot who brought the royal crown from Rome, was appointed the first archbishop. The beginnings of Hungarian Christianity can be traced back to 996, when Geza invited the Benedictine followers of St. Adalbert from Czech lands to live at Pannonhalma. There, the monks introduced Hungarians to European culture and Christianity. One more time, in English... For the benefit of our readers not schooled in the Hungarian language, we present this English version of “Magyar Nyelv.” This English-language text is a synopsis of Ms. Kerekgyarto’s three-part series on King St. Stephen. The second and third installments in Hungarian will appear in our December 2000 and January 2001 issues, respectively. According to medieval beliefs, Pannonhalma was the birthplace of St. Martin, in whose honor the fathers dedicated the monastery. A charter drawn up by King Stephen in 1002 urged the Benedictines to pray for the nation's survival. In 1996, on its 1,000th anniversary, the Abbey of the Order of St. Benedict in Pannonhalma was placed on the UNESCO list of world heritage. The honor was based on the abbey's historical, artistic and architectural value. The honor also highlighted the almost uninterrupted operation of a typically Hungarian monastic community whose spiritual and intellectual inheritance remained signficant for a millennium. The forms of today's monastery is chiefly attributable to the Abbot Uros, its heroic defender against the Tartars. In 1224, Uros radically reconstructed the earlier complex along the lines of the monasteries he visited in central Italy. The craftsmen who worked there had knowledge of French and German Gothic architecture and applied that knowledge to contemporary forms of construction familiar in Hungary. This year, the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized King Stephen I. The recognition of his sainthood coincided with the 1,000th anniversary of Hungarian statehood. |(U1,| We're stumped, and we need your help. We've looked and looked, but we just can't locate your fellow WPA members listed to the right. If you know the current address of anyone on this list, please send the information to: Richard W. Toth, FLMI, FIC National Vice President-Secretary William Penn Association 709 Brighton Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15233 Phone: (412) 231-2979 (Ext. 126) Toll-free: 1-800-848-7366 Fax: (412) 231-8535 Branch Name and Last Known City and State 0019 Joseph Longuillo (none on file) 0019 Mary Lynne Marcus (none on file) 0019 Valerie A. Marcus (none on file) 001 9 Pauline Maskale (none on file) 0019 Mary Ellen Mauro (none on file) 0019 Stephanie M. May, Egg Harbor City, NJ 1 0019 Alice Mayo (none on file) 0019 Martin T. Mészáros, New Brunswick, NJ 1 001 9 Ann R. Minshew (none on file) 0019 Elsie Molnár (none on file) 0019 John Molnár, New Brunswick, NJ 0019 Eugene Nagy (none on file) 0019 Robert L. Oravitz, Riverside, NJ 0019 Patricia Pavol (none on file) 0019 Barbara Pelsoczy, New Rochelle, NY 0019 Geza Phillips (none on file) 0019 Ceclia Pinter (none on file) 0019 Patricia Gail Rado, Jackson, NJ 0019 Thomas C. Ratliff, New Brunswick, NJ 1 0019 Danny K. Remson, New Brunswick, NJ | 0019 Lawrence Repanshek, Somerville, NJ 0019 John S. Resko, Woodbridge, NJ 0019 Margaret Rice, Toms River, NJ 001 9 Louis George Rousz, South River, NJ 20 William Penn Lite, November 2000
