Magyar News, 1996. szeptember-1997. augusztus (7. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1997-05-01 / 9. szám

Coronation Mantle, gold embroidered by Gizella with King Stephen's image on it

The Hungarian Community Club of Wallingford is offering scholarship to graduating high school seniors. The awards are not limited to students who enroll in four year programs. The applicant should be a member, or the parents, grandparents, of the Community Club for at least two years in good standing.

Deadline for the applications is May 6, 1997 and should be sent to Hungarian Community Club of Wallingford, 145 Ward St., Wallingford, CT 06492,

For information and forms please call Linda Kata at (203)643-0602.

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A satellite radio program is being broadcasted from Hungary titled Szülőföldünk. It comes via Galaxy5 and one could find it at A:00 PM standard time on the East Coast. At the same time it is available on the Internet. The Address is http://www.wm.org/. This might be an easier way to go for most of us.

If one is interested to find Radio Budapest then use http://www.eunet.hu/radio/

We have the full program for April and May. If you are interested please give us a call at 377-0569. We would also like to find somebody who has the interest, the know-how, and the willingness to help out other Hungarians probably by submitting articles on these radio programs and also some TV possibilities.

The MAGYAR NEWS is looking for some volunteers who could help out with some administrative work, or just stuffing envelopes, stamping, etc. These include a few hour a month, usually on a thursday around the 20-th.

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ST. ISTVÁN (STEPHEN) - c.969-1038 - great-great-grandson of Árpád, who had led the Hungarian tribes into the Carpathian Basin in 896 A.D., and son of Géza, leader of all the Hungarians. Baptized and raised as a devout Christian, István defeated his pagan rivals for leadership and then asked the Pope for recognition as King of Hungary, thus placing Hungary firmly in the orbit of Western Christianity, independent from the political powers of the time.

István was crowned the first King of Hungary in 1000 with the crown sent him by the Pope. He wrote the first codification of law, divided the country into 45 counties, and minted coins. He established dioceses and founded monasteries.

István was a wise and just ruler. His reign was peaceful and his court became a haven for refugees from other lands, including two exiled English princes, Edward and Edmund Ironside. (Edward, the last descendant of Alfred the Great, married Agatha, a daughter of King István. Their daughter. St. Margaret of Scotland, was thus King St. István's granddaughter.) When St. István's only son Imre, whom he had groomed to succeed him, was killed in a hunting accident, István offered his crown, and the counöy it symbolized, to Mary, the Mother of God. Ever since, Hungary has been known as “Mary's Land," the only country which is her "legacy," and the first to be so dedicated,

St. István's right arm has been preserved intact, and this relic is carried in procession on his feast day, August 20th.

BLESSED GIZELLA - c. 980 - 1059 - daughter of Prince Henry of Bavaria, she became the wife of King St. István. She provided liturgical vestments for the country's churches, and herself enbroidered what became the coronation mantle used throughout the centuries. She had a number of children, including at least one other son besides Imre, but most of them died at an early age. After István’s death, she was exposed to many slights and much injustice by those who succeeded to the throne, She finally returned to Bavaria and entered a Benedictine convent where she soon became abbess, outstanding in compassion for those in need.

ST. IMRE (EMERIC OR AMERICUS)- c. 1007 - 1031 - son of St. István and Blessed Gizella. Trained first by St. Gellert, later by his father St. István himself, Imre was destined to be the successor to the throne. For this purpose, his father wrote his "Admonitions," a book of principles to be followed by a Christian ruler. Among other things, István urged Imre to welcome foreigners for "the country that has only one language and one set of morals is weak and fragile..."

But Imre dedicated himself to God, and has been revered as the patron of youth. He was killed in a hunting accident before he could succeed to the throne. Many boys were named in his honor, including Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian cartographer from whom the new World received the name "America."

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