Cardinal József Mindszenty

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Catholic prelate anti-communist archbishop cardinal human political prisoner

Cardinal József Mindszenty was a Hungarian Catholic prelate and staunch anti-communist who became an international symbol of resistance to totalitarianism during and after the mid-20th century upheavals in Hungary.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Catholic prelate → anti-communist → archbishop → cardinal → human → political prisoner →
appointedArchbishopOfEsztergom	1945 →
arrestedBy	Hungarian communist government →
birthName	József Pehm →
burialPlace	Mariazell Basilica, Austria →
chargedWith	conspiracy → currency offenses → treason →
commemoratedOn	various memorials and institutions bearing his name →
countryOfCitizenship	Hungary →
createdCardinalBy	Pope Pius XII →
dateOfArrest	1948-12-26 →
dateOfBirth	1892-03-29 →
dateOfCardinalate	1946-02-18 →
dateOfConviction	1949-02 →
dateOfDeath	1975-05-06 →
dateOfReburial	1991-05-04 →
dateOfRemovalFromOffice	1973 →
durationOfEmbassyAsylum	about 15 years →
exileIn	Austria → Vienna →
honoredBy	Roman Catholic Church in Hungary →
imprisonedBy	People's Republic of Hungary →
knownFor	imprisonment by communist authorities in Hungary → opposition to communism → symbol of resistance to totalitarianism →
leftHungary	1971 →
legacy	icon of Catholic resistance to communism → symbol of Hungarian national resistance →
name	József Mindszenty →
occupation	Catholic priest → archbishop → cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church →
placeOfBirth	Csehimindszent, Vas County, Kingdom of Hungary →
placeOfDeath	Vienna, Austria →
positionHeld	Archbishop of Esztergom → Primate of Hungary →
reburialPlace	Esztergom Basilica, Hungary →
releasedDuring	Hungarian Revolution of 1956 →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
removedFromArchdioceseAdministrationBy	Pope Paul VI →
sentence	life imprisonment →
soughtAsylumAt	United States Embassy in Budapest →
startOfEmbassyAsylum	1956-11-04 →
trialType	show trial →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 →	keyFigure
József Mindszenty ("József Mindszenty") →	name