Baroque Statue of St. László of Hungary
Baroque Statue of St. László of Hungary
Original function:
statue / memorial / relief
Current function:
statue / memorial / relief
Historical Hungarian county:
Bihar
GPS coordinates:
47.0690374041, 21.9323256464
On the right side of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. László.
History
In 1738, the cathedral chapter of Várad decided to erect a stone statue in honour of Saint László, which was consecrated in the same year. Its creator is unknown. This statue was restored and moved to the garden of the seminary in 1892, when the monument to St. László by Tóth István was erected in the middle of the main square. The statue was later buried in order to protect it from the Romanians. The statue, buried in the garden of the Episcopal Palace, was only dug up after the change of regime in 1999 by the bishop of the diocese Tempfli József. The statue was hidden underground from the Romanians for 52 years. In 2000, after restoration work was completed, it was put on its pedestal. It stands in the garden of the Roman Catholic basilica. It is the oldest Baroque stone statue in Nagyvárad.
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