That is a statue of St. Gellert, high up on the Buda hill named after him, overlooking the Danube. He was a bishop who, in 1046, became Christian Hungary’s first martyr when a band of pagans threw him off of this very hill (it’s much steeper than you can tell in this photo I took). I find this so moving. Again, this is the very hill from which the proto…
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