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LAJOS KOSSUTH STATUE ERECTED IN BUFFALO NEW YORK

HUNGARY TODAY : KOSSUTH STATUE UNVEILED in BUFFALO  

OK - it's been about a year... 

Excerpt:

Hungary's consulate general in New York said the best is meant to commemorate Kossuth's visit to Niagara Falls on May 22, 1852, and to pay tribute to the Hungarians who emigrated to the US in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Kossuth's efforts to keep the ideas of the freedom fight of 1848-1849 alive had a significant impact on the United States as well, the consulate said, adding that multiple US presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy had quoted Kossuth several times.

SARASOTA FLORIDA HUNGARIANS / AMERICAN HUNGARANS : KOSSUTH CLUB

AMERICAN HUNGARIAN FEDERATION : KOSSUTH CLUB

HUNGARY TODAY : SARASOTA HUNGARIANS and KOSSUTH CLUB

Excerpt: The Education Fund provides Kossuth Club scholarships to college-bound seniors of Hungarian descent in Sarasota and Manatee Counties and to Hungarian minority students in Central Europe. ...

How many Hungarians live in this area?  Eva and Geza estimate that there may be some 50-60- thousand scattered over an elongated stretch of coastal areas from Tampa to Naples.  But Sarasota is the cultural capital!  

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REMEMBER

ALL SOULS DAY and ALL SAINTS - HUNGARY NATIONAL HOLIDAY SINCE 2000

"According to folklore, the dead visit them during such times, so it is customary in many places to lay the table for them as well, put bread, salt, and water on the table.  The Hungarians of Bukovina also bake and cook for the dead and take the food to the cemetery and distribute it.  They light as many candles at home as many dead the family has.  In the villages along the river Ipoly, those who cannot go to the cemetery light candles at home on All Saints Day.  They used to observe whose candle burnt out first, because it was believed that they would be the first to die in the family.

Excerpt from :  HUNGARY TODAY - ALL SOULS FOLKLORE  More regional folklore here and gorgeous photos...

Just a note that I have always thought that the term All Souls Day and the term All Saints Day indicated the same holiday but I was wrong, All Souls is for the ancestors but All Saints is for the saints we know about and the saints we do not know about.  In Catholicism it is understood that many a saintly person lived in obscurity.  However, prayer to help those who have not yet gone to heaven to be with God can be said especially on these days, or truly any time.  These souls are able to be released to heaven, and are not suffering eternally for the evil deeds they did when alive.