Denis Farkasfalvy (1936-2020) *83

Denis Farkasfalvy was a Hungarian-American, Roman Catholic priest and monk of the Cistercian Order. He was an abbot, theologian, author and translator. His baptismal naame was Miklós; his father was a mechanical engineer. As a schoolboy he attended the school run by Cistercian priests in his home town of Székesfehérvár. After it was closed down by the communist government, in 1948 he transferred to the famous school run by Benedictines in Pannonhalma. He graduated in 1954 and became a clandestine Cistercian novice for Zirc Abbey in 1955; the monastery was officially suppressed at the time. His name in monastic life was Dionysius (Hungarian: Dénes, English: Denis). After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he took the advice of his novice master Lóránt Sigmond (1911–1964) and abbot Vendel Endrédy and fled. His journey led him via Austria (Heiligenkreuz Abbey) to Rome, where he enrolled at the Benedictine university St. Anselm's. He received his doctorate there in 1962. He made his solemn vows (for Zirc) in 1960 in the Abbey of Lilienfeld. This Austrian abbey also hosted his priestly ordination in 1961.

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