Regnum Marianum, Budapest After the disastrous Trianon Treaty, where 2/3 of the over 1000 year old historical territory of Hungary was awarded to the neighbouring states, a church’s foundations were laid in 1925 to the glory of Virgin Mary, who is the main patron saint of Hungary since Saint Stephen, Hungary’s first King bequeathed Hungary to the her. The church was consencrated in 1931 and was called Magna Domina Hungarorum (Hungarian’s Great Queen), but popularly was known as Regnum Marianum (Mary’s Country) after the initiating organisation. Though the foundations were laid in 1925, the real works began in the summer of 1926 by the plans of Iván Kotsis. The building stood at the edge of the Citypark, at the corner of the Dózsa György street. Its was domed, strongly reminescence to the Church of the Holy Tomb in Jerusalem. Its tower was decorated with the copy of the Hungarian Holy Crown. The church was consecrated on 14th June 1931 by Justinián Serédi primate. In 1951 the church was destroyed (blown up ) by the personal order of Mátyás Rákosi, the that time famed leader of the Communist Party. After the last mass the believers stood around the church to protect it against the destruction. The ÁVH (former state security) disbanded the defenders with violence. To the empty lot of the Regnum Marianum the communist regime built a huge Stalin-statue. The statue was cut down and dragged to the centre of Budapest in the first few hours of the 1956 Hungarian Uprise and Freedom Fight. The huge boots of Stalin has remained, and today locate int he Memento Park of Budapest.In 2000 a simple wood cross and a memorial tablet were erected on the original place of the church. The original small-bell of Regnum Marianum is still at work in the Saint Michael chapel in Somogyapáti. The late Pope John Paul once said the „rebuilding of the Regnum Marianum would be a great resurrection of the Catholic Church in Hungary and the Hungarian nation’” After the fall of communism many efforts were made to rebuild the church without much success. Lastly a new Regnum Marianum was built at Zoborhegy square. Construction of the church began in summer of 1995 and the building was consecrated on 6th October 1996. Next to the church a Memorial Park can be found, where the parts of the previous destroyed church are exhibited. budapestbug.tumblr/post/62255542248/regnum-marianum-churches-of-budapest-after-the
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