Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joseph Mindszenty has lived for three years with the threat of martyrdom hanging over him. He knew it and talked about it, and said he was ready to accept it. He even prepared for the form of martyrdom that overtook him last week, the martyrdom devised by King Unericus-the martyrdom of the tongue that could no longer clearly profess that to which he had dedicated his life...
...Communists managed it no one in the West knows. (To this day no one knows the secret of the 1937 purge trial confessions in Russia.) Somehow they broke Joseph Mindszenty, man of burning courage. Somehow they made him say things he had denied with the utmost vehemence, and with full knowledge of the consequences, until his arrest 40 days before...
...Father's House. Joseph Mindszenty comes from fighters' country-the low, rolling Dunantul, on the western bank of the Danube, the rampart where for 150 years Hungarians fought the Turkish invaders from the East. He was born (1892) in the village of Csehimindszenty, the son of Janos Pehm. The Communists make much of the fact that the Pehms are of German origin although they have lived in Hungary for three centuries. Janos Pehm was a peasant. He was also mayor of the village, a bold, devout man who perpetually rebelled against the county's landlords and petty...
With his two sisters, Joseph worked all day on his father's 20 acres, lived in his father's one-story house that was built of sun-baked brick. When he went to the seminary in a nearby town, many of his fellow students looked down on him as a peasant's son. He was an intense, unsmiling and brilliant student...
...Sick & the Jailed. At 23, Joseph Pehm was ordained and went home to Csehimindszenty, where his mother proudly watched him celebrate his first Mass. In 1917 he went to teach in the small town of Zalaegerszeg, later became its parish priest. The parish he took over was in poor shape. He immediately started building a new church and a new school. He kept four cows and distributed milk to the undernourished children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror...