"I press toward the mark for the prize..."
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- remembrance of Nagy Töhötöm - 


We were in the yard of the Jesuit Grammar School in Kalocsa in the autumn of 1937. A young Jesuit priest came down among us who presented us with Mass in the morning. He called one of the little guys: 
– What's your name, boy?
- My name is Stephen  the child said.
- Well, then we're almost related, because I'm Töhötöm: Nagy Töhötöm.
Then he turned to me:
- Who are you, great-bachelor?
- I'm Augustine,-  I said.
- Oh, Augustine! I really love St. Augustine!

- Then do you know, boy, what this saying of your patron saint means:
"Inquietum est cor nostrum, Domine, donec requiescat in Te!” 
– "Our heart is troubled, O Lord, until it rest in Thee."

And now here lies the eternal restless good friend: with closed eyes and a smooth face…

My wife and I held hands, and as it turned out afterwards, we remembered the same Portuguese proverb: "God writes straight with crooked lines."

 (Ágoston Takáts remembers Nagy Töhötöm.)



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