“I enjoy being a monk because I have dedicated my life to the one I love and who loves me.”
What makes someone want to become a Pauline monk? What is necessary to choose this vocation? Can a monk be in love? What do...
Henrietta Vadas
“I saw my child lying on a table, covered with a sheet” – The story of Flóra Béry-Januskó and her little son with SMA
"As a senior in high school, I was diagnosed with a gynecological condition that gave me very little chance of ever getting pregnant naturally...
Adrián Szász dr.
"It's hard to pay attention to your surroundings when you have The Terminator standing next to you” – We talked to Schwarzenegger's Hungarian bodyguard
He was bullied as a child and enrolled in martial arts at the age of 14 to protect himself later in life. And -...
Médea Wilcsek
”From revolution to pandemic - writing can heal multigenerational traumas,” states Cynthia Berenyi, the Canadian-Hungarian writer
”I didn’t even know who I was anymore, but I knew that was what I needed to find out. I was ready. I was...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
”Hungarian artists are taken seriously abroad, too” – Miranda Liu, one of the world's youngest concertmasters
Miranda Liu is no ordinary person. As well as becoming Concerto Budapest's concertmaster in 2016 at the age of 19, she is a violinist...
Anna Petz
Mickey Hargitay: muscle man who married a sex bomb – Hungarians in Hollywood 8.
From acrobat apprentice to immigrant, he became a widely recognized legend of bodybuilding. Mickey Hargitay, from a poor family in Kőbánya, was an exemplary...
Anikó Wéber
A glimpse into the wardrobes of the Hungarian nobility! – We present the most beautiful Hungarian ceremonial dresses
For centuries, politics and prevailing ideals have influenced what a nobleman wore to family and official functions. We pin tricolored cockades on our clothes...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Healing from the national trauma – an interview with János Árpád Potápi, Secretary of State
The Public Treasures series presents month by month the areas that we see as valuable, our common treasure, worthy of preservation and transmission. Hungarian...
Sára Pataki
”Hi, doctor Rishar, remember me? You operated on me!” – Dr. Richárd Hardi, ophthalmologist, restored the sight of tens of thousands of people in Congo
Dr. Richard Hardi, an ophthalmologist who arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the mid-1990s with a suitcase full of instruments, works in the poorest parts...
Emese Kosztin
I will tell you my story - How would I live if I had only this one life?
Do you feel like you cannot find your way, this is not how you want to live? That you could do more and better...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
Transylvania comes to life in Szentendre – we visited the new exhibition of the Hungarian Open Air Museum
You need to have a playful heart to dream up, build and manage a human-scale landscape tableau, a toy city built from real elements...
Ágnes Jónás
Fabulous Hungarian castles and forts worth visiting even in winter
Hungary has so many beautiful castles and impressive forts that it would be a shame to stay indoors in winter instead of going on...
Kata Molnár-Bánffy
You can learn outside the four walls, too – An interview with Dr. Zoltán Szalai, Director general of Mathias Corvinus Collegium
One of the horrors of every parent is that their child would "mix with the wrong crowd", whatever that may mean, and we often...
Adrián Szász dr.
”The people we meet are living historical footprints” – the cool traditionalists say
Dániel Kurucz, the host-producer of the television series Hungaricums Around the World, has visited Hungarians living in 35 countries on five continents, searching for...
Zsejke Jámbor-Miniska
The gift boats were punched by the Sri Lankans – Giving help is not the same as giving aid
The Hungarian Interchurch Aid, thirty years old this year, has matured into a cohesive, extended community of people working every day to make the...