Orban Meets Francis

The American Conservative ^ | 9/13/21 | Rod Dreher

[marshmallow]

Interesting, this:

PM Orbán met Pope Francis and presented a letter that King Béla IV wrote for Pope Innocent IV in 1250. The King warned of the looming threat of the Tatar invasion and called for the unity of Europe. He was ignored. 35 yrs later HU fended off the Tatars with great bloodshed.

Here is the text of that letter:

To the most holy father in Christ and Lord Innocent, by divine providence Supreme pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, Béla, king of Hungary by the same grace, with the respect both due and devoted.

Most of the kingdom of Hungary has been reduced to a desert by the scourge of the Tartars, and it is surrounded like a sheepfold by different infidel peoples like the Ruthenians and the Brodniks on the eastern side and the Bulgarians and Bosnian heretics against whom we have been fighting until now with our armies on the southern side. On the western and northern side there are Germans, from whom, because of our common faith, our kingdom should gain the fruit of some aid. However, it is not any fruit, but rather the thorns of war that our land is forced to endure as they snatch away the wealth of the country by unexpected plundering.

For this reason—and especially because of the Tartars, whom the experience of war has taught us to fear in the same way as all the other nations that they have passed through have learned—after having asked for advice from the prelates and princes of our kingdom, we hasten to flee to the worthy vicar of Christ [the pope] and to his brethren, as to the sole and very last true protector of Christian faith in our ultimate need, so that what we all fear will..........

[Apparatchik]

Orban trolling Bergoglio and the EU - in style.

[John S Mosby]

Brilliant HISTORICAL reminding the current idiot utopian pope— about Pope Innocent’s ignoring Hungary vs. the coming Mongol invasion.

Orban brilliantly played the pope with a letter from Bela IV king of hungary to pope innocent. It is a phenomenal letter.

the pope’s reception in slovakia was not good, the traditional mass an issue as was his “open all doors” to illegal migrants for “opportunity”.