Prohászka László: Polish Monuments - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2001)

rácz and Croatian Márk Körösi. They were beatified in 1905. All three of them were canonised by Pope John Paul during his visit to Slovakia in 1995.

Pictured on the two stained glass windows of the slightly pointed sanctuary are Jesus and Mary Immaculate. The altar is decorated by a picture of the Madonna of Czechostowa. Below the glass window of Menyhért Grodecz is an oil painting of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, who was killed in Auschwitz. He was canonised in 1982.

The Budapest City Council declared the Polish church a building of great importance for the architectural appearance and the history of the city and placed it under special protection in 1996. A blue and white plaque on the wall informs us that the building is registered as an architectural monument in Poland. The building next to the church is that of the Polish House founded in 1935, which was returned to the community in 1998. The Polish Saint Adalbert Association in Hungary, founded in 1992, is now making efforts to establish a Polish social and cultural centre in this building.

Consecrated at Whitsuntide 1926, the Chapel in the Rock, a religious place of unique aesthetic value, originally came into being as an architectural development of the ancient Saint Stephen cave in Gellért Hill, and was further extended in the 1930s. In 1934 a Pauline cloister, attached to the chapel, was completed, based on designs by Károly Weichinger. The Pauline order, which was founded by Blessed Eusebius in 1250 as the only monastic order for men of Hungarian origin, established another home in Czechostowa, Poland, in 1382. Together with the other orders, it was dissolved by Joseph II in Hungary in 1786. After 150 years the white-clad Pauline monks resumed their activities in the cloister in the side of Gellért Hill in 1934, with the permission of the Superior of Czechostowa. Their activities came to an abrupt halt in 1951, when all orders were dissolved and their members were arrested. The cloister was converted into a students’ hostel, and the chapel was walled in, after its entire interior fittings had been destroyed.

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