Organized by the Pázmaneum Társulás, the Jópásztor Foundation and the Vámbéry Ármin High School, the opening of the exhibition "Életkapuk - interactive exhibition for young people" took place on February 9 in the building of the Vámbéry Ármin High School in Dunaszerdahely.
Krisztián Forró, the representative of the Nagyszombat county municipality and the president of the Association, spoke in his speech about one of the most bitter periods of Hungarians in the highlands, the four years following the Second World War, which were an unjust and humiliating period of statelessness and deprivation of rights. "For other peoples and communities, the Second World War brought freedom or years that were thought to be freedom, but for the Hungarians living in Czechoslovakia, our parents and grandparents, it meant the complete deprivation of their rights. After 1945, our parents and grandparents were deprived of their freedom.
We must also remember these years, József Mindszenty and the Slovak resistance fighters, because
let's not forget for a moment that no one has the right to humiliate a person in his dignity, that freedom is not self-evident even in democracies.
You have to stand up for it. Just as the archbishop of Esztergom, the last prince-primate of Hungary, József Mindszenthy, did," said the speaker.
"This exhibition is yours," Gergely Kovács began his speech at the Hungarian-language high school in Dunaszerdahely.
Seven words, seven colorful tableaus - like the seven candlesticks that once greeted the chief pastor on the church altar - and a related competition, so that the exhibition can not only be viewed, but also deciphered. The rich life of Cardinal Mindszenty is revealed in the former church square, and perhaps the key to his life decisions and personality can be found in it.
The home, the church, the prison and the eternal home, these were his most important Gates of Life.
The exhibition can be viewed by the public on weekdays between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. in the high school building.
The second event of the Mindszenty exhibition will take place at the end of February, in connection with the Memorial Day of the Victims of Communism, in the framework of an unusual history lesson, which was taught by dr. Parish priest Zsolt Farkas, president of the Jópásztor Foundation, will speak to high school students about totalitarian systems, church persecution, the Mindszenty trial and its aspects in the highlands.
Source: Felvidek.ma
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