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35. - 19 - solid hands and I am not surprised that the Budapest masters, who saw the power and success of their government, became arrogant and often unjust and lost the sense of progress and new social and democratic ideas. They relied too much on their Prussian and noble system. They trusted too much in their strength and greatly despised the uneducated and politically and nationally unaware mass of the non-Magyarian people and their spiritual representatives. They knew how to win the Church, the Catholic and the Protestant, on the basis of gendarmerie and army. They did not tolerate that non-chauvinists came to the episcopal, canonicus and prelate places. On the contrary, they supported and promoted only those leading clergymen who, according to the style of the Kaschauer bishop Bubics, the Rosenauer Ivarkovics, Zipser Párvy, the Graner Csernoch and Rajner, the Ushhoroder Pap or the Preschauer Novak, the Neutraer Bathyányi or the Rosenau Vlk-Farkaš distinguished themselves by their Magyarization services. In a pastoral letter, Bishop Bubics lamented the fact that the Catholic people entrusted to him were still so backward culturally that they could not even speak in a magic language. Therefore, in the Kaschau seminary, he forbade the clergy from studying in the Slovak language. Similarly, more or less all the bishops in Slovakia helped the Magyar language.Párvy behaved so hatefully to the Slovak clergy that it aroused dis will even in Rome. How he behaved to Hlinka is generally known, and that this unchristian tyrant is actually the spiritual originator of the great blood-forgathering ir Černova, does not need to be proved. We still feel the terrible consequences of the Magyarization of the seminars in the Catholic Church today. It is also necessary to look in the past for the reasons why the Catholic Church question has not yet been resolved. I would go too far if I were to list here the details of martyrdom of the Slovak clergy faithful to their origin, but I believe that the general reference is sufficient. I - - 20 -