biography
| name: |
Mindszenty, József, Cardinal
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pronunciation:
[mindsentee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1975)
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| biography:
| Roman Catholic clergyman, born in Mindszent, SE Hungary. Primate of Hungary (1945), and created cardinal (1946), he became internationally known in 1948 when, having refused to let the Catholic schools be secularized, he was arrested and charged with treason by the Communist government in Budapest, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Temporarily released in the wake of the 1956 uprising, he was granted asylum in the US legation at Budapest, where he remained as a voluntary prisoner until 1971, when he went to Rome. He criticized the Vatican's policy towards Hungary, and was asked by Pope Paul VI to resign his primacy. He settled in Vienna, and spent his last years in a Hungarian religious community. |
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