Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1959-08-01 / 8. szám
6 FRATERNITY court at Vienna often heard his thunder as the leaders of the Counter-Reformation continually came back to the attack. Finally, in 1644, he entered Hungary with an army and thus he, too, became involved in the thirty-year war; and coming out of it victorious, he signed the Peace of Linz (1645). This was an agreement which completely clarified those clauses in the Peace of Vienna about which any misunderstanding whatsoever could arise. By “freedom of religion”, “freedom to use one’s own church building” was explicitly understood, the peasantry were to be given complete freedom of choice, and the magnates were to build their peasants churches if they had none and yet desired a place of Prot- estant^ worship; Reformed churches occupied by George Rakoczy I, Prince of Transylvania Roman Catholics were to be returned, all further confiscation of church buildings were to be forbidden, and lastly, Protestants were to be permitted to bring their affairs to the national assembly to be dealt with by their Protestant peers without let or hindrance! (To be continued)
