Word: kalocsa
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Since Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty went to jail 21 months ago for defying the Red regime, 63-year-old Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa has headed Hungary's bench of bishops. No weakling, Grosz once refused a Nazi order backed by machine guns, to leave his palace. Last June he protested to Rakosi when the Communists seized the monasteries and convents of Transdanubia, the heartland of Catholic Hungary. Rakosi smoothly replied that the state was ready to negotiate. At the time, monks and nuns were being imprisoned by the thousands and the bishops decided they had no choice...
...signed on behalf of the Bench of Bishops was no habitual appeaser. He was Archbishop Joseph Grosz of Kalocsa, a 63-year-old churchman whose character and courage are above question. When in 1945 Nazi bullies broke into his palace at Kalocsa and ordered him with drawn machine guns to get out of town, said Grosz: "I can face any kind of machine gun and if necessary I can even die at this desk." The Nazis left and the archbishop stayed...
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