St. Rosalia Greek Chatolic Chapel
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ST. ROSALIA’S GREEK CATHOLIC CHAPEL IN SZEGED
Lechner Square is one of the friendliest inner-city squares of the city of Szeged. It is quiet and peaceful, far from heavy traffic and, in the main, houses built in the 1920s border it. It is one of the six squares rendered park-like in the wake of the flood which devastated Szeged in 1879. It is named in memory of Louis Lechner (1833-1897) who is revered among Szegedians as the great contributor to the city’s redevelopment post inundation.
On the perimeter of the square, on a small rise fringed by bushes, stands the Szeged Greek Catholic rite parish church. While most churches sturdily guard the place on which they were built, as a sign to the world, our chapel has been moved twice.
It has witnessed a great deal of change, repeatedly demolished and re-erected elsewhere - its sad fate symbolising the history of Greek Catholicism in Hungary.
THE HISTORY OF THE CHAPEL 1739 to 1879.
1738 was a sorrowful year in the history of Szeged. The Black Plague was raging and as well as this, drawn by the therapeutic qualities of the thermal waters found here, Timosoari tradesmen moved in, and, at a time of nearly 1000 infections, more than 500 people fell victim to the contagion. The people of the city, afraid of the epidemic, sought refuge in God and the council vowed to build a chapel in memory of the disaster.
In 1739, beside the timber Demeter church a chapel was built which Baron Bela Falkenstein, the bishop of Csanad diocese, blessed on August 1st of that year.
Its patron saint is Saint Rosalie who, according to tradition, lived in Sicily in the twelfth century. She secretly fled the luxury of her father Duke Sinibaldi’s castle at the age of 16 and went on to live the life of a solitary in a cave close to Palermo. When the plague arrived, she moved into that city and nursed the afflicted. Once the plague had abated, she moved back to her cave and she died there at the age of 22 around the year 1166.
According to legend, about 500 years later, in 1614, when the Black Plague was raging, the citizens of Palermo found her body encased in a naturally-formed limestone coffin. Once her relics were placed in Palermo Cathedral, the plague miraculously ceased. Her fame spread beyond her native country and also reached Hungary.
Since then many have prayed to her, asking for her effective intercession against the spread of epidemics.
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Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország, in English officially the Republic of Hungary (Magyar Köztársaság), literally Magyar (Hungarian) Republic), is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Its capital is Budapest. Hungary is a member of OECD, NATO, EU, V4 and is a Schengen state. The official language is Hungarian, which is part of the Finno-Ugric family, thus one of the four official languages of the European Union that are not of Indo-European origin.
Following a Celtic (after c. 450 BC) and a Roman (9 AD – c. 430) period, the foundation of Hungary was laid in the late 9th century by the Hungarian ruler Árpád, whose great-grandson Stephen I of Hungary was crowned with a crown sent from Rome by the pope in 1000. After being recognized as a kingdom, Hungary remained a monarchy for 946 years, and at various points was regarded as one of the cultural centers of the Western world. A significant power until the end of World War I, Hungary lost over 70% of its territory, along with 3.3 million people of Hungarian ethnicity, under the Treaty of Trianon, the terms of which have been considered excessively harsh by many in Hungary. Hungary lost eight of its ten biggest cities as well. The kingdom was succeeded by a Communist era (1947–1989) during which Hungary gained widespread international attention regarding the Revolution of 1956 and the seminal move of opening its border with Austria in 1989, thus accelerating the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. The present form of government is a parliamentary republic (since 1989). Today, Hungary is a high-income economy, and a regional leader regarding certain markers.
In the past decade, Hungary was listed as one of the 15 most popular tourist destinations in the world. The country is home to the largest thermal water cave system and the second largest thermal lake in the world (Lake Hévíz), the largest lake in Central Europe (Lake Balaton), and the largest natural grasslands in Europe (Hortobágy).
Slightly more than one half of Hungary's landscape consists of flat to rolling plains of the Pannonian Basin: the most important plain regions include the Little Hungarian Plain in the west, and the Great Hungarian Plain in the southeast. The highest elevation above sea level on the latter is only 183 metres.
Transdanubia is a primarily hilly region with a terrain varied by low mountains. These include the very eastern stretch of the Alps, Alpokalja, in the west of the country, the Transdanubian Medium Mountains, in the central region of Transdanubia, and the Mecsek Mountains and Villány Mountains in the south. The highest point of the area is the Írott-kő in the Alps, at 882 metres.
The highest mountains of the country are located in the Carpathians: these lie in the northern parts, in a wide band along the Slovakian border (highest point: the Kékes at 1,014 m/3,327 ft).
Hungary is divided in two by its main waterway, the Danube (Duna); other large rivers include the Tisza and Dráva, while Transdanubia contains Lake Balaton, a major body of water. The largest thermal lake in the world, Lake Hévíz (Hévíz Spa), is located in Hungary. The second largest lake in the Pannonian Basin is the artificial Lake Tisza (Tisza-tó).
Phytogeographically, Hungary belongs to the Central European province of the Circumboreal Region within the Boreal Kingdom. According to the WWF, the territory of Hungary belongs to the ecoregion of Pannonian mixed forests.
Hungary has a Continental climate, with hot summers with low overall humidity levels but frequent rainshowers and frigid to cold snowy winters. Average annual temperature is 9.7 °C (49.5 °F). Temperature extremes are about 42 °C (107.6 °F) in the summer and −29 °C (−20.2 °F) in the winter. Average temperature in the summer is 27 °C (80.6 °F) to 35 °C (95 °F) and in the winter it is 0 °C (32 °F) to −15 °C (5.0 °F). The average yearly rainfall is approximately 600 mm (23.6 in). A small, southern region of the country near Pécs enjoys a reputation for a Mediterranean climate, but in reality it is only slightly warmer than the rest of the country and still receives snow during the winter.
