Prakfalvi Endre: Roman Catholic Churches in Unified Budapest - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2003)

The Chapel of Hungary's Saints, 1996

ured by the Pantheon of Rome (named S. Marya ad Martyred—the Virgin Mary and All Saints). The columns marking the ring that accentuates the centralised layout might serve as an allusion to the national church of Hungarians as well as to the Santo Stefano Rotondo in the Eternal City. Here we can read the inscription on the tombstone of the Transylvania-born János Lászai, a confessor in Rome ^1523), an excerpt of which could serve as a metaphoric summation of the catholic (i.e. universal) nature of the Catholic church—Roma est patria omnium fuitque (Rome is and will remain the mutual home of us all). The memorial plaque of the church was blessed by John Paul II during his 1996 visit to Hungary.

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