Hungarian Religion: Children in the Church


Figure 1.--This unidentified Hungarian boy apperas to be dressed for his First Communion. Here we see two Hungarian boys doing their First Communion in 1959 durting the Communist era. This image is part of a album on an unidentified Hungarian family. The outfit seem similar to how some Polish boys dressed for First Communion.

Many Hungarian children once attended Church services. We do not think sunday school was a sommon as in America. Children also have played a variety of roles in church services. As Hungary was a largely Catholic country, this primrily means in the Catholic Church. Thus we are primarily talking about altar boys and First Communion. Many boys served as altar boys for church services. Until recent tomes this was exclusively an activity for boys. This was once very common as was First Communion. A large number of children participated in First Communion until after World War II. The Communists began an athetist campaign, but did not completely destroy the Church. We notice children doing First Communiion in 1959. Boys also participated in weddings. At this time we only have one wedding image. Not all weddings were church weddings, but until the Communist era, most were. The Communist atheist campaign was more sucessful in Hungary than Poland. Thus today religion and children's participation in religious servives is more limited than before the War.







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