Peter Pázmány de Panasz, S.J.:From Calvinist To Catholic, From Jesuit To Archbishop And Zealot

A Protestant who had been converted by the Jesuits, Peter Pázmány (1570-1637) (here) , archbishop of Gran from 1616 and cardinal from 1629, was a zealot in the cause of conversion, and was specially successful among the high nobility. By his sermons and pamphlets, which he collected in his "Kalauz " or " Hodegeus " ("guide"), as his great work was called, he converted many nobles to the Roman Catholic faith. In 1635 he refounded the Jesuit University at Tyrnau (burnt down in the sixteenth century) ; this was afterwards changed into the High School of Budapesth. The Reformation in Hungary seemed doomed to collapse.

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Under the great Peter Pázmány, the zealous opponent of Protestantism, conditions were improved, and after his death there were 185 parishes. To-day the number is given as 480, and the total number of clergy in the archdioese 923, of whom 729 are occupied with the cure of souls. There are 5 seminaries for the training of priests, the central seminary at Budapest, that of Gran, the Pazmaneum at Vienna, and the preparatory seminaries at Presburg and Tyrnau. There is also an archiépiscopal gymnasium connected with the Tyrnau seminary. The students number about 262. There are in the archdiocese 134 religious houses of men and women, whose members number collectively 2487. In the three vicariates of the archdiocese (1909) there are 1,480,531 Catholics.

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