Ladislaus, King of Hungary and Croatia, Saint (LADISLAO, RE D'UNGHERIA E DI CROAZIA, SANTO)

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

LADISLAO, king of UNGHERIA and CROAZIA, saint. - Patron of Transilvania. Born in Poland in 1040, died at Nitra in Slovacchia on 29 July 1095. Son of Bela I and brother of King Andrea I. In 1077 he was elected king of Ungheria.

After occupying Croazia and Dalmazia, he had the Cathedral built at Varadino in 1092 and founded the archdiocese of Zagabria. In 1083 he secured the canonization of St. Stefano and St. Emerico. He convened the Synod of Szabolcz in order to intensify religious life. Inspired by Christian doctrine, he continued the work of his predecessors St. Stefano and St. Emerico, further developing the concept of a Christian Hungarian state, but he opposed requests to make Ungheria a vassal state of the Holy See. He was canonized in 1192 by Pope Celestino III. Feast day: 27 June.

BIBL.: Acta SS. Junii, V, Anversa 1709, pp. 315-27; VI, there 1715, pp. 261-64; L. Endlicher, Rerum Hungar, Monumenta Arpadiana, St. Gallen 1849, pp. 324-48; F. Sisić, Povijest Hrvata u vrijeme narodnih vladara, Zagabria 1925, pp. 602-20; Martyr, Romanum, p. 259.

Miroslav Štumpf