Vendel Endrédy
Vendel Endrédy SOCist (born January 19, 1895 in Fertőendréd ; † December 29, 1981 in Pannonhalma ) was a Hungarian Cistercian and abbot of the Zirc monastery .
Life
Vendel Kálmán Endrédy entered the Cistercian Abbey of Zirc in 1917 after graduating from the Benedictine high school in Győr . He studied theology, mathematics and physics in Budapest and, after ordination and teaching qualification, was a teacher at the Cistercian grammar school in Budapest . In 1938 he was elected headmaster and in 1939 Abbot of Zirc and at the same time Abbot President of the Zirc Cistercian Congregation . In 1948 the communists expropriated the monastery and schools. The monks were expelled, Abbot Vendel was arrested in 1950 and sentenced to 14 years in prison in 1951. He spent six years in solitary confinement. He was briefly released during the Hungarian People's Uprising in 1956, but was arrested again in 1957 and interned in a nursing home in Pannonhalma. He died there in 1981.
literature
- Endrédy Vendel Kálmán, in: Magyar Katolikus Lexikon
- Endrédy Kálmán Vendel, Hadarits, in: Magyar Életrajzi Lexicon 1000–1990
Web links
- Vendel Endrédy in Biographia Cisterciensis , June 2010
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Endrédy, Vendel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian priest, Abbot of Zirc (1939 to 1981) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fertőendréd |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 29, 1981 |
| Place of death | Pannonhalma |