Deep, honest, simple - this is how father Levente Bokros, who was a very good friend, described the faith of the deceased actor legend Mari Törőcsik. Mari Törőcsik called him her friend, I quote: "I have a very good friend, a young man, his name is Levente Bokros. He once belonged to the Franciscan order, but he felt that there was too much isolation for him, and he became a secular priest. I told him: I would like you to consecrate my ashes in Pély.
The father was a former youth minister in Vác, and according to his recollections, they asked him to gather the young people and somehow pass on the culture to them.
"I wanted the cultural center to be full because of the quality programs. This is how the idea of the series Our Contemporaries was born, where we invited many public figures and artists, I also invited Mari Törőcsik. We went to his apartment in Buda, from there he came to Vác by car. We liked each other so much that after that Mari made a sport out of getting into her car on Sunday afternoons, coming to my place in Vác, we sat down for a coffee, went for long walks, and talked. He always addressed me like this: "Pay attention, you priest!" And he asked me to bury him if he died."
According to the father, the artist had a very deep, ancient, human faith. She didn't know what to do with the church as an institution, but they talked a lot about faith, and she always asked about the points she was curious about, but she started a more serious relationship with God when her husband, Gyula Maár, died. He always spoke of Gyula as if he is still alive. When I went over to him later, he usually greeted me like this: "God welcome you to Maárék's," said the father.
She had no anger towards God even after her husband's death, she continued.
"He didn't understand one thing: celibacy, so he brought it up again and again. He didn't say this cynically either, rather sadly, he thought priests couldn't live a full life like this. Mari's whole life was characterized by the fact that she did not talk much about her faith, but lived in such a way that you would ask her about it. It was great that he didn't play himself, he always gave himself. There was no need to think about hints or underlying intentions, he always said what he thought, without any posturing."
He told Father Bokros things about life, as they used to during a confession. He had a very deep faith in God - concluded Levente Bokros.
Source: 777blog.hu
Cover photo: National Theatre
