Does the deified world, especially Europe, still take into account that the Catholic Church commemorates the death and assumption of the Virgin Mary today, August 15? I'm not sure.
We, believing Hungarians, have a double reason to remember this day, as the death of our first ruler (1038) also fell on this day, and King István offered his country to the protection of the Virgin Mary. From this day we became Regnum Marianum, the country of Mary. Our heavenly patron has slowly entrusted his guardianship to this for thousands of years, he has lost his faith, his cross, and his identity in this crazy world.
The king, who was later canonized, considered the cult of Mary important throughout his life. As soon as he ascended the throne, he made it a special holiday, and throughout his reign he kept the end of summer devotions to the Assumption in an exceptional light. He convened the royal council in Székesfehérvár on this day every year, and also held the legislative session on that day. The festivities, colored by processions, did not lose their power in the following centuries either. The Day of the Virgin Mary - with the exception of the decades of the dictatorship - has always been considered the biggest church event in Hungary.
It says everything about communism that, at the height of his persecution of the church, the bloodthirsty Mátyás Rákosi even razed the Regnum Marianum church in the Városliget to dust in 1951. (His successors did not advocate the celebration of the Virgin Mary, not even the over-confessed Ferenc Gyurcsány.)
the full article of Magyar Nemzet here.
Author: Tamás Pilhál
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