The Cleveland Hungarian Museum invites you to the last program in our 2025 Spring Lecture Series! It will be held at the Museum on April 12 at 2:00 o’clock. The Museum is located in Downtown Cleveland in the Galleria At Erieview, Lower level.
The title of the program is Pilgrims in a Foreign Land: A History of America’s Hungarian Catholic Shrines and Pilgrimage Traditions.
The lecture will be in English and presenter will be Nicholas Boros.
In August 2023, Bishop Edward Malesic designated Cleveland’s St. Elizabeth of Hungary Parish as a shrine, but it certainly was not the first shrine built by America’s Hungarian Catholic community. During the last century, Hungarian-American Catholics had erected four other shrines, Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Orange Village, OH), Our Lady Comforter of the Afflicted (Youngstown, OH), and two in honor of Our Lady of Máriapócs (Burton, OH and Matawan, NJ).
This past summer, Cleveland-native Nicholas Boros completed an over 300-page pictorial history showcasing the story of these Hungarian-American shrines and pilgrimage traditions, portions of which he will be sharing as part of his presentation. Nicholas Boros serves as an Upper School Mathematics Teacher at Hawken School in Gates Mills, Ohio. He completed his undergraduate studies in comparative religion, linguistics, and mathematics at Cleveland State University. His primary area of research focuses on various topics within the history of Eastern Orthodoxy in America, but he occasionally works on projects related to the historical development of Hungarian Catholicism in America.
As is our tradition, we will serve refreshments after the lecture and guests will a chance to discuss the topic further with Nicholas. Suggested donations: Adults $10, Students $5. Parking is available for $7 in the Galleria’s Parking Garage.
Hope to see you! A viszontlátásra!
Unfortunately, i can not make a visit to Cleveland but would certainly be interested in viewing any publications or media covering the April 12th event. My mother, Rozalia Gyorvari Thompson was born in Sopran on April 12th, 1898 and came to the U.S. sometime about 1918 in Cleveland. Please let me know of any opportunity to view a broadcast in English.