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A Shared Heritage: Celebrating Polish–Hungarian Friendship Through the Pauline Order

‘Along with its growing prominence as a religious place, Jasna Góra also became known as a site of Poland’s struggle for its freedom and sovereignty. As Poland was fighting for its independence on multiple fronts, the monastery was one of…

Hungarian Documentaries Explore the Olympics, Social Media, Puppetry, and Pilgrimage

With support from Hungary’s National Film Institute (NFI), a series of new documentaries will explore topics ranging from Hungarian athletes at the Paris 2024 Olympics to the influence of social media, the life of a renowned puppeteer, and a pilgrimage…

The Feast of Purification

‘Under the Mosaic legislation, any woman after bringing a son into the world was considered unclear for seven days; she had to wait for another 33 days before presenting herself in the temple. This so-called spiritual impurity refers to a…
Advent in Miskolc in 2021

More and More Light Every Week — The Advent Season’s Folk Traditions

‘Jesus Christ brought to humanity the message of hope, God’s love above all else, and salvation, thus overcoming darkness as a divine source of light proclaiming salvation. This is why the dawn takes on a special significance in anticipation of…
The Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Domenico Capriolo in the Treviso Cathedral (detail, 1520)

Catholics Celebrate the Feast of the Assumption Today

King Saint Stephen of Hungary considered this feast so important that he entrusted Hungary to the protection of the Virgin Mary on this day. For this reason, the Virgin Mary is known as the heavenly patroness of Hungary….
The patron saint of Hungary, the Virgin Mary, with St Stephen, St Emeric and St Ladislaus, a woodcut from a service-book from Venice, 1511

From the Veneration of the Virgin Mary to the Kingdom of the Virgin Mary: The Dedication of the Kingdom by Saint Stephen

During the reign of King Stephen, the political aspect of the King’s devotion to Mary was only secondary and could be seen much more as the individual devotion of a fervent Christian believer to Mary. However, posterity took a different…
An illustration from the Illuminated Chronicle: King Stephen captures the Transylvanian leader Prokuj in 1003.

The First Great War of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Power of Prayer

The modern reader might scoff at the medieval chronicler’s words about divine assistance, even dismiss it as gibberish, as he rather tries to find rational reasons for military victory. This attitude, however, fit in perfectly with medieval thinking, and the…

Pentecost Sunday and Its Message for Today

In his homily on Pentecost Sunday in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI said that ‘Pentecost is distinguished from all the Solemnities by its importance since what Jesus Himself had announced as the purpose of the whole of his mission on earth…

The Rich Hungarian Folk Traditions of the Holy Week

A most typically Holy Week prayer, known as The Golden Lord’s Prayer, is one of the most beloved meditative prayers of the religious Catholic women of Hungary. In it, Jesus tells his mother, Mary what awaits him on the days…

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