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The towns of Buda and Pest are separated by the Danube River, averaging 1000 to 1600 feet wide and 15 to 25 feet deep. As, indeed it divides the whole country of Hungary, into two general regions. A low, rolling plain known as the Great Hungarian Plain, covers most of the region east of the Danube extending east to Romania and south to Serbia, west of the Danube, known as Transdanubia, is mostly mountainous. The geological features of the Carpathian Basin are such that the earth's crust is very thin, so waters rise easily to the surface. Hungary is a land of more than 1,000 hot springs and innumerable caves. It is believed those cave chambers were fashioned by the action of thermal waters and based on artifacts uncovered here, they were in use over a half a million years ago as both hunting ground and shelter. The history of settlement here goes back as far as the second millennium BC. During the Great Age of Migrations,aka The Barbarian Invasions, ca. 300 - 1000 A. D., the area was settled by waves of nomadic tribes, primarily Scythians from the Caucasus and Gallic Celts. Others included Goths, Vandals, Franks, Germanic, Bulgar and Slavic tribes. Buda's location astride the main land routes between Western Europe and Balkan Peninsula as well as between the Ukraine and the Mediterranean basin. That fact, along with the invaluable naval highway of the Danube gave it its vital strategic importance besides providing a natural buffer to invaders from the East. The Romans, recognizing this, conquered the Region ca. 35BC and it became part of the Roman Empire within the province of Pannonia. The Roman settlement was called Aquincum (capitol of Pannonia) and its ruins are to be found in the Óbuda (Old Buda) district. The overwhelming majority of development occurred on the Buda side of the Danube.
great Magyar chief, Árpád, ca. 895–ca. 907. He settled down on Csepel sziget (Csepel Island) in the Danube. Árpád's brother, Buda, gave his name to the west bank, the most important site. Pest, the east bank was probably so named for the white limestone abundant in the area. Árpád began to lead the people from paganism toward Christianity. On Christmas Day, 1000, Árpád's great grandson, Stephen I, 997-1038/1046, ascended to the throne with a crown sent from Rome by Pope Sylvester II (1000-1038). The kingdom and nation of Hungary was born. St. Bruno
20. Stephen was crowned Hungary's first king in 1001 with a crown sent by Pope Sylvester II (1000-1038). He is credited as Founder of the Hungarian state and the conversion of the Magyars to Christianity. He was canonised in 1083.
present day Holy Right Hand was part of the right arm removed by the monks who prepared him for burial. Common practice at the time.It is believed that the lower arm is kept in Lemberg (Ukraine), whereas the upper arm is in the Saint Stephen cathedral in Vienna. Pannonhalma
legendary birthplace of the Gallic legionnaire, later Bishop, St. Martin of Tours. The Abbey has been vandalized often. The west apse is probably from the first church; the walls are the walls of the church consecrated in 1137. Geza, the third duke (voivode) after Arpad and the Father of St. Stephen, saw the political necessity of Christianity to his country, and encouraged by St Adalbert of Prague, he was baptized and a number of his nobles followed his example. But it was largely a conversion of expediency. He did have Pannonhalma built. Saint Gellért
Christianity. Budapest’s Gellért Monument pays tribute to the 11th century bishop. In the early years of the 11th century, Gellért (Gerard), the Benedictine Abbot of San Giorgio Maggiore In Venice, was on his way to Palestine on a pilgrimage when he was detained by the country’s King Stephen (d. 1046), who asked the bishop to stay and tutor his son Imre, and to help convert the pagan Magyars to Christianity. St. Ladislaus of Hungary
If Hungary owed the establishment of its monarchy and the organization of its church to St Stephen I, it was almost equally indebted to another sainted king of the same house of Arpad, Ladislaus. Urban II looked for his help in organizing the First Crusade, and it was Ladislaus who was chosen by the kings of France, Spain and England to be the commander-in-chief of that expedition. Nitra in Bohemia in 1095. He was fifty-five years old. Although he was indefatigable in Christianizing the Pagans he allowed civil and religious liberty to the jews and the Ishmaelites, i.e. Mohammedans. |
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| or Boniface, of Querfurt, Bishop and Martyr (died 1009). Feastday June 19 (Julian). This missionary monk was born about the year 974 of a noble Saxon family at Querfurt, and was baptized Bruno. He was instrumental in the early Christianizing of the nearby Pechenegs where he met his martyrdom. |
| or Anastasius, ca. 1040. Feastday November 12. St. Astrik is revered as the First Bishop of Hungary. He was almost certainly the first Abbot of St. Martin's (Pannonhalma), the first ecclesiastical institution of Hungary, founded by Geza and settled by Benedictine monks, the missionaries of St. Gallen in 996. In 1055, wrote the first document in the Hungarian language. |
Gellért agreed to take on the challenge and remained
in the country for many years, spreading the Christian
Gospel. It is said that several years after Stephen’s
death, in 1046, Gellért himself was put to death at the
site now known as Gellért Hill. According to historians,
he was sent to his demise in a barrel, rolled down the
steep hill by those who opposed Christianity. The
Inner City Parish Church, Franciscan, the oldest
church in Pest, is the site of St. Gellért's gravesite
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