Mindszenty

[ mind-sen-tee ]

noun

1. Joseph Joseph Pehm, 1892–1975, Hungarian Roman Catholic clergyman: primate of Hungary 1945–74.

Mindszenty

/ ˈmɪndsɛntɪ /

noun

1. MindszentyJoseph18921975MHungarianRELIGION: clergyman Joseph. 1892–1975, Hungarian cardinal. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of treason (1949) but released during the 1956 Revolution

Example Sentences

Not since Communist Hungary tortured and jailed Cardinal József Mindszenty in the early Cold War, however, has a dictatorship borne down on a single cleric with something like the ferocity Mr. Ortega is visiting upon Bishop Álvarez, whose activism began by opposing ecologically destructive mining projects and expanded to include protests against the government’s human rights violations in general.

From Washington Post

The Vatican on Wednesday also said that Francis had approved the “heroic virtues of God’s servant” Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, the Hungarian churchman who suffered a long imprisonment for being a foe of Communism.

From Seattle Times

Mindszenty died in Vienna, Austria, in 1975.

From Seattle Times

Their meeting was in a room at the embassy where Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, a Catholic leader who was vocal in the anti-communist movement after World War II, lived for 15 years after seeking refuge from Soviet troops who entered Hungary in 1956 to quash an anti-communist rebellion.

From Washington Post

Zen added that the pope had warned officials “not to create another Mindszenty case” — suggesting a certain degree of sympathy with the retired cardinal’s point of view.

From Washington Post