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A recently inaugurated chapel in Hungary, commemorating the two events that anticipated major upheavals in the West, is intended as a shrine of prayer for world peace.
BUDAPEST, Hungary — What if Hungary’s history and persistent Christian identity embodies a message for the West?
This possibility seems to be suggested by the startling convergences across time between Hungary’s first International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), held in May 1938 just as Europe was about to plunge into a war of unprecedented atrocity, and the one held in September 2021, a few months before the resumption of the Russia-Ukraine war that has once again upset the geopolitical balance of the Old Continent.
For many Hungarian faithful, this timing is no coincidence but instead part of a larger plan by God, who throughout history has been distilling his messages in various places around the world, whether through apparitions or events of great symbolic significance.
For them, the two events, which had in common the fostering of a deep popular fervor, constituted a spiritual preparation both for the faithful present and for the universal Church, on the eve of tribulations for Europe and the West.
Moved by this deep conviction, local communities have joined forces to erect a chapel commemorating the two events, designed to become a place of international pilgrimage for the peace of peoples. Nestled in the heart of a natural park in the outskirts of Budapest, the new shrine was inaugurated last December by the primate of Hungary and archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Cardinal Péter Erdő.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — What if Hungary’s history and persistent Christian identity embodies a message for the West?
This possibility seems to be suggested by the startling convergences across time between Hungary’s first International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), held in May 1938 just as Europe was about to plunge into a war of unprecedented atrocity, and the one held in September 2021, a few months before the resumption of the Russia-Ukraine war that has once again upset the geopolitical balance of the Old Continent.
For many Hungarian faithful, this timing is no coincidence but instead part of a larger plan by God, who throughout history has been distilling his messages in various places around the world, whether through apparitions or events of great symbolic significance.
For them, the two events, which had in common the fostering of a deep popular fervor, constituted a spiritual preparation both for the faithful present and for the universal Church, on the eve of tribulations for Europe and the West.
Moved by this deep conviction, local communities have joined forces to erect a chapel commemorating the two events, designed to become a place of international pilgrimage for the peace of peoples. Nestled in the heart of a natural park in the outskirts of Budapest, the new shrine was inaugurated last December by the primate of Hungary and archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Cardinal Péter Erdő.
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‘Keeping Our Eyes Riveted on Christ’: Did the Eucharistic Congresses of 1938 and 2021 in Budapest Carry a Prophetic Message for the West?
A recently inaugurated chapel in Hungary, commemorating the two events that anticipated major upheavals in the West, is intended as a shrine of prayer for world peace.
