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Sisi, Queen Of The Magyars

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Sisi, Queen Of The Magyars

And: The Martian from Budapest, Catholic pioneers, and therapeutic psychedelics

Rod Dreher
Jul 18, 2022
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Sisi, Queen Of The Magyars

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I took that photo Sunday afternoon of the statue of Elisabeth, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She died in 1898, assassinated in Geneva by an anarchist. She is one of the most beloved figures of Hungarian history, though she was not a Magyar. Yesterday I read in a newly published history of Budapest why she was so adored. I had imagined tha…

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