Basilicas in Hungary

I blogged about the following basilicas on February 1, 2021.

• Co-Cathedral and Basilica of St. Stephen in Budapest
• Cathedral Basilica of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, St. Michael and the Immaculate Conception in Eger
• St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica in Veszprem 

Cathedral Basilica of St. Stephen the King, Szekesfehervar, Fejer

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Pius XI in 1938.

The Basilica serves as the Cathedral for the Diocese of Szekesfehervar.  The Baroque church was built between 1758 and 1768.  The Basilica has frescoes featuring the life of St. Stephen and also has a red marble pulpit with gilt wood sculptures. 

All pictures are from Wikipedia.

Basilica of St. Martin of Tours (Pannonhalma Archabbey) Pannonhalma, Gyor-Moson-Sopron

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Pius XII in 1942.

The Abbey complex consists of several buildings—the main church, which is the Basilica, cloisters, a high school, and library.  The abbey was established by the Benedictines in 996 near what is thought to be the birthplace of St. Martin of Tours.  The current church was built in a Gothic style in the early 13th Century.  The library contains 360,000 books including the oldest document written in Hungarian.  About 50 monks live there today.

The first two pictures are from local sources and the last is from Wikipedia.

Greek-Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows and Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel, Mariapocs, Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Pius XII in 1948.

The Basilica is a Hungarian Rite Catholic church and was built in the 18th Century.  About half a million pilgrims come to the Baroque Basilica annually to venerate a late 17th Century icon of the Virgin Mary that has “wept” on three occasions—in 1696, 1715, and 1905.  

The first picture is from a local source, the second from Pinterest, and the last two are from Wikipedia.

Basilica of the Assumption, Matraverebely-Szentkut, Nograd

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Paul VI in 1970.

The Baroque Basilica was built between 1758 and 1763.  The towers are topped with onion-domes and the main altar and pulpit are designed in a rococo style.  On the property are caves where Pauline hermits lived starting in the 13th Century.

All pictures are from local sources.

Basilica of the Assumption, Zirc, Veszprem

Declared a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1982.

Zirc Abbey dates to the late 12th Century and the abbey church, which is the basilica, was built between 1732 and 1752 by the Cistercians.  The Baroque Basilica has the largest Baroque altarpiece in Hungary and two paintings by Franz Anton Maulbertsch, an 18th Century Austrian artist.

Pictures are from Flickr, a local source, and Wikipedia.

Basilica of St. Therese, Keszthely, Zala

Declared a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1989.

The Neo-Romanesque Basilica and adjoining Discalced Carmelite monastery was built between 1927 and 1938.  The church has a statue of St. Therese adoring the infant Jesus in the arms of Mary.

Pictures are from a local source and Wikipedia.

Sts. Peter and Paul’s Cathedral Basilica, Pecs, Pecs

Declared a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1991.

The basilica is the Cathedral for the Diocese of Pecs.  The foundation of the Basilica dates to the 4th Century.  A Romanesque church was built in the 11th Century and was reconstructed in a neo-Romanesque style in the late 19th Century.

Pictures are from a local source and Wikipedia.

Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption, Mariaremete, Budapest

Declared a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1991.

The Basilica houses an 18th Century image of the Virgin Mary.  The current Neo-Gothic church was built in the late 19th Century.

All pictures are from Wikipedia.

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady, Gyor, Gyor

Declared a minor basilica by Pope John Paul II in 1997.

The basilica is the Cathedral for the Diocese of Gyor.  An 11th Century Romanesque church was destroyed by the Mongols and rebuilt.  After the Turks were defeated, the current Baroque church was built between 1635 and the 1770s.  The red marble pulpit is a notable feature.

The first picture is from a local source and the other two are from Wikipedia.

Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Sarospatak, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.

This church is associated with St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who may have been born in Sarospatak in 1207.

From TripAdvisor.

Basilica of the Assumption, Mariabesnyo, Pest

Declared a minor basilica by Pope John Benedict XVI in 2008.

A church was built on this site in the 13th Century over the ruins of an earlier church which had recently been rediscovered.  Among the ruins was a statue of Mary which soon drew pilgrims.  The current Baroque church was built in the mid-1700s.  The rococo confessionals were added later in that century, the main altar was rebuilt in 1917, and the current murals and windows date to the early 1940s.

All pictures are from Wikipedia.

Basilica of Mary, Siklos, Baranya

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008.

A church has been on this site since at least 1148 and the current Baroque building was completed in 1742.  An earlier version of the church was converted to a mosque by the Turks until they were expelled in 1687.  The church was then taken over by Calvinists, until an apparition by Our Blessed Mother encouraged authorities to return the church to the Catholics.

The top picture is from Pinterest and the others from Wikipedia.

Basilica of Our Lady of the Hungarians, Marianosztra, Pest

Declared a minor basilica by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.

Queen (Saint) Hedvig built a church and a Pauline monastery on this site in the 14th Century, but both were destroyed by the Turks in 1535.  The Paulines began reconstruction in 1711 and the new Baroque church was completed in 1729.  Pilgrims began coming to the church in 1739 after a dying monk was miraculously healed.  The monastery closed in the late 1700s and in 1809 was converted to a hospital and later to a women’s prison.  The Communist regime in the 20th Century made it a men’s prison.  When the Communists were overthrown in 1989, the Paulines reclaimed the church.

Pictures are from a local source and Mapio.