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• Een dakloos gedenkteken voor Michiel de Ruyter

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  Jaap Doedens

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  Almost unbeknownst to virtually anyone, the fragments of a monument commemorating
  the liberation of galley slaves by Michiel de Ruyter lay for years in the parking garage of
  the Reformed Theological Seminary in Pápa. Originally, this memorial stood in the
  courtyard of the military academy, the Zrínyi Miklós Nemzetvédelmi Egyetem (Miklós
  Zrínyi Defense University) on Üllői Street in Budapest. It was erected in 2002 to commemorate the liberation of the Hungarian ministers who had been sentenced to the galleys
  and were freed by Michiel de Ruyter in Naples in 1676. The monument was designed and
  created by Colonel Dr. Lajos Berek, who was also the rector of that university. When this
  military academy moved to the campus on the Hungária ring road in 2008, the old building
  was sold. The monument was taken down. The Bolyai János Honvéd Alapítvány (János
  Bolyai Defense Foundation) donated the memorial to the Protestáns Tábori Püspökség
  (Protestant Military Diocese). The new owner would look for a new location for the statue.
  Since there was no place to put it up again at that time, they looked for a place where it
  could be stored “temporarily.” That place was the parking garage of the Reformed
  Theological Seminary in Pápa. 

• Admiral De Ruyter in Hungarian memory

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  Gábor Pusztai

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  Michiel de Ruyter is a Dutch national hero. He is respected in Hungary as the liberator of
  the Protestant galley slaves. Since 1895, his name can also be read on the memorial behind
  the Great Church of Debrecen. De Ruyter has appeared in various forms in Hungarian
  memory during the centuries: either as a fearless soldier, a faithful Christian or as a symbol
  of reconciliation. His memory keeps changing but his spirit keeps living on in Hungarian
  memory.