Mindszenty

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Mindszenty

(ˈmɪndsɛntɪ)

(Biography) Joseph. 1892–1975, Hungarian cardinal. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of treason (1949) but released during the 1956 Revolution

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He also formally recognized that the late Hungarian Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, jailed and exiled by the communists, had lived the Christian virtues in a heroic way; the recognition is an early step in the sainthood process.

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After the communist takeover of Hungary in the late 1940s, the new government imprisoned the fiery anti-communist Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, the church's leader there.

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Embassy Chancery in Budapest, Hungary, was chosen for its architecture and because it is where Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, leader of the Catholic Church in Hungary, sought asylum for 15 years during the Soviet occupation of that country.