Archbishops of Esztergom - Tamas Bakocz, Jozsef Mindszenty, George Martinuzzi, Peter Pazmany, Peter Erd, Alexander Rudnay, Janos Csernoch (Paperback)

Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tamas Bakocz, Jozsef Mindszenty, George Martinuzzi, Peter Pazmany, Peter Erd, Alexander Rudnay, Janos Csernoch, Antun Vran i, Janos Vitez, Laszlo Paskai, Ippolito D'este, Jusztinian Gyorgy Seredi, Boles aw of Toszek, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Laszlo Lekai, Stefan Vancza, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, Matthias of Gran. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Venerable Jozsef Mindszenty (March 29, 1892May 6, 1975) was a cardinal and the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary. He became known as a steadfast supporter of Church freedom and opponent of communism and the often brutal Stalinist persecution in his country. As a result, he was tortured and given a life sentence in a 1949 show trial that generated worldwide condemnation, including a United Nations resolution. Freed in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he was granted political asylum and lived in the U.S. embassy in Budapest for 15 years. He was finally allowed to leave the country in 1971. He died in exile in 1975 in Vienna, Austria. Mindszenty was born Jozsef Pehm on March 29, 1892, in Csehimindszent, Austria-Hungary. His father was a magistrate. He became a priest on June 12, 1915. In 1917, the first of his books, Motherhood, was published. He was arrested by the socialist Mihaly Karolyi government on February 9, 1919, until the end of the communist Bela Kun government on July 31. He adopted his new namepart of his home village's namein 1941. He also joined the Independent Smallholders' Party in this period, in opposition to the Fascist Arrow Cross Party. On March 25, 1944, he was consecrated bishop of Veszprem, which is a distinguished post because the town traditionally belonged to the queens of Hungary. He was arrested on November 26, ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=421508