MINDSZENTY, JOSEF CARDINAL

(1892–1975), was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, 1946; Archbishop of Esztergom, 1945; and ordained a priest, 1915. On November 12, 1956, commenting on his eight years of confinement by the Russian occupation troops in Hungary, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty stated:

I suffered torture bodily and in my soul. It’s God’s miracle that I am here and that I am as I am.3481