Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty: Hungary's conscience

Jozsef Pehm was born in Hungary in 1892. He embarked on theological studies and began to be involved in public life at the end of World War I. He adopted the surname Mindszenty to honour his native village. He publicly opposed both the Nazi and Communist regimes, and was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1949. During the Hungarian revolution of 1956 he was freed for few days and then spent 15 years in the American Embassy building in Budapest, and was allowed to leave the country in 1971. He died in exile in Vienna in 1975