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Blessed István Sándor

Blessed István SándorAlso known as

  • Stephen Sándor

Memorial

  • 8 June

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Printer. Salesian lay brother in 1940. Led a group of young Catholic workers. Arrested in 1952 by the Hungarian Communist authorities in a crackdown during which all religous groups were outlawed; he received a show trial in October and was sentenced to death for bring actively Christian. Martyr.

Born

  • 26 October 1914 in Szolnok, Hungary

Died

  • hanged on 8 June 1953 at Budapest, Hungary

Venerated

  • 27 March 2013 by Pope Francis

Beatified

  • 19 October 2013 by Pope Francis
Additional Information

  • other sites in english

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed István Sándor“. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 June 2016. Web. 25 April 2018. <>

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