Fifty years after he last visited the United States, Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman Catholic primate of Hungary and prisoner of conscience against both Naziism and communism, was vividly recalled last week at an event at the Hungarian Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Mindszenty, who died at age 83 in 1975, is now on the path to becoming a saint in his church. In 2019, the Vatican proclaimed him “venerable”— historically the first step in a process that leads to “beatification” (proclaiming a deceased person in a state of bliss) and finally “canonization” (making one a saint and thus someone to whom Catholics can pray).

Vatican sources say that with Pope Francis weighing in on behalf of sainthood for Mindszenty, it could come as early as 2026.

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