Bede Lackner
American-Hungarian theologian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bede Lackner was a Hungarian-American, Catholic priest and monk of the Cistercian Order. He was a theologian and historian. Biography Flight from Hungary, theological studies, and priestly ordination Fr. Bede was born Károly János Lackner in Vaskút, in southern Hungary, to Stefan Lackner and Elisabeth Rutscher. They were so-called Danube Swabians who had been brought into Hungary mainly in the eighteenth century to repopulate it after the expulsion of the Ottoman Turks. He entered the Cistercian Order in 1947 at the Abbey of Zirc after attending a school run by Cistercians in Baja for eight years. He studied philosophy and theology in Zirc in the years immediately before its dissolution by the Communist regime on October 15, 1950. Facing violent persecution, many of his confreres went to Rome; others moved to the US and eventually founded Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey.
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