Today we said a final goodbye to Dr. Izabella Bencze. On behalf of the board of trustees of CÖF-CÖKA, Dr. László Csizmadia, chairman of the board of trustees, gave a farewell speech.
Dear Mourners!
Ladies and gentlemen!
We have come to say goodbye to the outstanding spiritual defender of the nation, Dr. Izabella Bencze.
Our historical greats, Lajos Kossuth, Lajos Batthyány, Ferenc Deák, Mihály Vörösmarty are buried in our national cemetery. The graves of many remind us of the building blocks of our national pyramid and its skyward peak. This pyramid is not a finished work. She is a woman, because the citizens of spiritual life, the natives of our country, take care of her eternity.
The body will turn to dust, the soul will enter the kingdom of God, while the spirit will remain as an inheritance for future generations. Izabella's intellectual creations provided the connecting cement for the construction of our common Hungarianness. The only female founder of CÖF-CÖKA served the ideals of the people's majesty with valiant courage and outstanding ability.
In the past decades, during his career in public life, he contributed to the rise of our country. He took part in the preservation of the nation's wealth, pointed out the evils of predatory privatization, fought for the common good as a true Christian, and when fate brought it to pass, he fought his way through the queue wall set up by the emergency police in the Castle in 2009 to deliver the citizens' petition to the President of the Republic László Sólyom. He nursed the Trianon wounds of our nation with his writings. He organized a collection for the reconstruction of the Atyhai Church in Székelyföld, which was struck by lightning.
I quote from the book he wrote before his death: "The stages of our lives are like a musical etude for practice, which, if lucky, can be assembled into a major concert piece."
She became an unforgettable woman of spiritual national defense. He testified that man not only listens to his mind, but also sees with his heart. Indeed, Dr. Izabella Bencze's etudes became a patriotic concerto. Let these melodies ring for our grandchildren and children, showing the way.
As a lawyer, you testified that the rules of truth and morality should enjoy primacy in legislation. With this, you put a cake baked in ashes in our bag for the trip.
God bless you until we meet.
(MTI Photo: Noémi Bruzák)
