Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

respondence with her Hungarian confidantes had to be kept secret. Besides harbouring pro-Hungarian sentiments, Dorothy also supported the Lutheran congregation, which she helped to establish its first church after allowing it to hold its first open service in her Buda palace. A woman well-versed in theology and a devout Christian who. read Greek and Hebrew, the Archduchess held regular Bible-study sessions in her family, maintained cordial relations with the Reverends Banhoffer and Székács, and was even rumoured to have had Biblical quotations painted on her dessert plates.

That first Lutheran church stood next to the "water gate” of the southern section of the wall surrounding the Castle, around the spot where the ruined building of the chief military command can now be seen; the church continued to function here until as late as 1895,. Consecrated on 26 September 1846, the tower-topped house of prayer was built to plans by Lajos Kimnach. Kept in its treasury was a crucifix made of tut Venetian crystal.

Her charitable deeds would take a long time to list. She continued to support the Ladies’ Society established by her predecessor Hermina and renamed the Pest Charitable Association of Women, she lent her efficient patronage to the foundation, especially' in the provinces, of Lutheran schools, helped Teréz Brunszwik open the first nursery school in Hungary, and she sponsored the Institution for the Blind funded by her husband the Palatine.

Her mortal remains had originally been laid to rest in 1855, in the Palatine's Crypt of the Castle. Next to the Palatine’s ornamental sepulchre carved by György Zala stands her simple, unadorned sarcophagus. The plaque preserving her memory was installed in early 2001 by the Lutheran congregation of Buda in the presence of the Palatine's great-great-grandson Michael of Hapsburg-Lorraine, who gave a short speech of salutation.

The Patriotic Art of István Ferenczy

The memorial plaque of István Ferenczy is on the wall of a building on the corner of Magyar utca, at No. 26 of the street named after him in the inner city of Budapest. The plaque was sculpted by Elek Kóbor ín 1954, two years before the centenary of Ferenczy’s death. The inscription is curiously laconic about the significance of the great sculptor it commemorates, mentioning no more than the sculptures made in the likeness of the "outstanding figures of

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