The Hungarian Student, 1957 (1. évfolyam, 2-8. szám)

1957 / 7. szám

A painting by Tibor Danielfy.

First Prize at a Paris Exhibition.

. . .from a letter written to the Bishop of Frieburg about 200 years ago

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1e Deum laudamus in offering for my life, existence and hopes.

I have made a holy vow because f have seen the horror of horrors.

I have made it in atonement for so much humiliation to humans and Hungarians, so much abasement to life and holiness it makes the heart break, the reason unbalanced. To me and all of us who have seen and lived through these years, the sunshine, spring and summer are incomprehensible. All that is born and remains the same is incomprehensible. We but repeat one line of the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Thy Kingdom come.’ Our Bible opens at the same page always; ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.’ And the symbol of our lives has become one with the symbol of the holy cross, because evil ones have passed sentence upon us. And they have killed justice when they crushed us, because we no longer can believe in justice on this earth. These things I thought, and then I knelt and continued to pray, ‘Thy will be done.’ ”

“November 4, 1956”