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"Make the strangers welcome in this land, let them keep their languages and customs, for weak and fragile is the realm which is based on a single language or on a single set of customs."
"(Unius linguae uniusque moris regnum imbecille et fragile est)"
St. Stephen in a letter to his son St. Emeric, 1036 A.D..


St. Stephen
of Hungary

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St. Emeric
of Hungary

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Above, you see the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Hungary with crown of Vajk (pronounced similar to Vike) who made Hungary a Christian power and is now known as St. Stephen (Szt. István), Hungary's first Christian King, receiving his crown from the Pope in 1000 A.D. The stripes on the heraldic right side represent the 7 Hungarian (Magyar) tribes who established Hungary in the Carpathian basin in the 9th century. The Apostolic white cross on its left, part of the coronation jewels presented to St. Stephen, sits on the mountains that protected the borders of historic Hungary - the Tatra, Matra, and Fatra. St. Stephen's crown sits atop the arms with its crooked cross, which according to legend, broke after the death of the great renaissance King, Matthias Corvinus - Mátyás Király. It is said, "truth and justice died with him." This was soon to be prophecy, as Hungary's tragic history began to unfold. The crown jewels were taken to the US after the Romanian occupation force attempted to remove them. The jewels were returned to Hungary by President Jimmy Carter. St. Stephen was a member of the original Árpád Dynasty which established Hungary in the Carpathian Basin in the year 896. His son, also canonized, is St. Emeric, the namesake of Amerigo Vespucci, discoverer of North America.

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