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Blessed István Sándor

Blessed István Sándor Also known as

Stephen Sándor

8 June

Profile

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

hanged on 8 June 1953 at Budapest, Hungary

27 March 2013 by Pope Francis

19 October 2013 by Pope Francis

Additional Information

other sites in english

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fonti in italiano
- Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

“Blessed István Sándor“. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 June 2016. Web. 14 December 2019. <>