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• Die neueren Quellen von Persecutio Hungaricae

  33-56

  Dávid Csorba

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  The study focuses on the history and historiography of the Hungarian Galley Slaves. The
  publication of their story by the Western European press made a huge impact on international Calvinism. In Hungary it went the opposite way, mainly for historical reasons. A
  manuscript and its large amount of copies built a great legacy, thanks to the historical
  research for the original documents (mentioned in texts by Bálint Kocsi Csergő and Ferenc
  Otrokocsi Fóris) between the 17th and 20th century. Thus, the attitude of the Galley Slaves
  indeed became a decisive image of Hungarian, reformed identity.

• Contribution to the Cantatas on the Anniversary of the Galley Slaves’ Liberation

  199-210

  Sándor Berkesi

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  52

  New Hungarian choral works were born on another jubilee, i.e., on the 300th anniversary of
  the Protestant galley slaves’ liberation. They are the ‘little sisters’ of the oratorio Budavári
  Te Deum, these cantatas are in the order of their completion: Sándor Szokolay: Cantata to
  the Memory of the Galley Slaves, Lajos Vass: Furor Bestiae, Zoltán Gárdonyi: Memento.
  Composers use the text written by Ferenc Otrokocsi Fóris and other galley slaves who
  records the story of his deportation, sufferings and liberation. The last two pieces of music
  were composed in October 1975 and dedicated to the choir ‘Kántus’ of the Reformed
  College of Debrecen. Their world premiere took place on 11 February 1976 in the Reformed
  Great Church in Debrecen, in the framework of festivities dedicated to the anniversary of
  the liberation of the galley slaves, the conductor was the writer of this article.

• Het Nederlandbeeld van de tot de galeien veroordeelde Hongaarse predikanten*

  89-120

  László Zsigmond Bujtás

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  176

  From already published letters of Hungarian Protestant ministers damned to the Neapolitan galleys by a special law court at Pozsony (Bratislava) in 1675 to prominent Dutch persons, from almost the galleys turns out that they called them, consequently the Netherlands as defenders of the truth belief (fides orthodoxa) who felt solidarity with fellow-Protestants (especially the Reformed ones) abroad, were ready to support them in their struggle to preserve their religious freedom and to assist to build the Church of God everywhere. The article also analyses unpublished works of the Protestant ministers and their supporter at Venice during their slavery and after their liberation by admiral Michiel de Ruyter in 1676. In these documents the same image of the Netherlands can be found but also two more epitatheta ornantia can be observed: they called the members of the States General, respectively the country as the nourishers of the Church and the greatest defenders of the truth of the Gospel.