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This website - https://esterhazyjanos.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Esterhazy-ANGOL.pdf - was created by Kláris, Georgina, PhD in 2021. Places where Count János Esterházy has a memorial plaque, statue, etc. Click on Szlovákia to see the places in Slovakia where he has a memorial plaque. Currently there are 45 places. In Ilava and Leopoldov, where he was imprisoned, there is no memorial plaque... In Csehország - Czech Republic - he was imprisoned in Plzeň, Ročov (Louny district), Mírovo, where he also died... Memorials are in Mírovo and in the cemetery in Prague - Motol...

Servant of God János Esterházy was born on 14.03.1901 in the Slovak village of Veľké Zálužie, near Nitra. His father, Count János Mihály, died when his son was 4 years old. His mother, Elizabeth Tarnowska, passed on to him a lively Catholic faith, Hungarian and Polish patriotism and a spirit of service. As a leading representative of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia, he was a member of parliament in Prague and Bratislava. He courageously spoke out in defence of divine right, human dignity, justice and truth. During World War II he participated in the rescue of persecuted Jews, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and members of other nations. He was persecuted by members of the Hungarian Arrow Cross Party and by the German Nazis. He always courageously proclaimed: "Our sign is the Cross!"

In 1945 he was imprisoned by the Soviet NKVD, interrogated at Lubyanka, sentenced to 10 years...forced labour, and contracted tuberculosis in Siberia. In communist Czechoslovakia, he was sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. Without the necessary treatment, he died on 8 March 1957 in the prison in Mírov. He was provided with the sacraments by Bl. Vasil Hopko, martyr, Greek Catholic of Presov bishop.

His fellow prisoners from the camps and the prison, including Slovak clergymen, considered him a faithful follower of Christ, a "saint" who encouraged hope in them, taught them to trust in God and to forgive. Characteristic of him was his evangelical faith, his love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, which he the priests hid, Marian piety and reverence for the saints. To the last moment he prayed for his own for his persecutors and for reconciliation among the peoples of central Europe. 

His beatification process began in March 2019 in Krakow.

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Count János Esterházy as a Christian-socialist/Christian-socialist politician in the civil-democratic pluralist political system of the First Czechoslovak Republic

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J.Š. 4.7.2022 

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