War and Art – Memoirs of a Hungarian Childhood – Part IV (1)
War and Art – Memoirs of a Hungarian Childhood – Part IV (1)

Summary/Abstract: The widows of Kesztölc, guardians of faith and hope, may their true plain hearts in prayers and piety rest. Widows so alike, that none do slacken in piety, none can die without prayers and whispers of immortality. My mother was no widow, but she prayed and hoped. For her, divine, saintly approval of an action was the essence of its rightness or goodness. She recognised no standard of moral behaviour independent of divine will. Her appeals to the divine will to settle human or moral issues took the form of consulting St Vendel, the patron saint of the village. His statue stood right across from our orchard.

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