Sándor Kőrösi Csoma commemorated in his native village
The death of Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was commemorated for the twenty-fifth time through a series of events organised between 10 and 12 April in his native village of Chiuruș and in the city of Covasna. At the closure of the events Csaba Sógor praised in his speech Csoma’s devotion to his religion and his nation.
At the last day of the series of events the participants at the commemoration gathered in the same small church Sándor Csoma had been baptised in as a child. The sermon held by reformed priest Zoltán Balogh was attended by both church and public figures.
RMDSZ MEP Csaba Sógor, who in Brussels’ international environment presented on several occasions aspects of Csoma’s life and oeuvre, also held a speech, insisting that the Hungarian traveller and scholar enriched not only the Szekler and Hungarian scientific life, but that of the whole world, too.
“A few weeks ago I held in the European Parliament and exhibition about Hungarian travellers and explorers, among them about Sándor Csoma. There too, people must see what we gave and what we continue to give to Europe. On 13 May this exhibition will also arrive to Covasna”, said Csaba Sógor, according to whom “occasions such as this one allow us to think about what these people carried with them from home. Csoma left from this place and, although he later went to live and study in Aiud and Göttingen”, his perseverance and fortitude, as well as his devotion to his nation and his religion are due to the firmness and discipline of his community that made him the great man he was.
RMDSZ MEP Csaba Sógor, who in Brussels’ international environment presented on several occasions aspects of Csoma’s life and oeuvre, also held a speech, insisting that the Hungarian traveller and scholar enriched not only the Szekler and Hungarian scientific life, but that of the whole world, too.
“A few weeks ago I held in the European Parliament and exhibition about Hungarian travellers and explorers, among them about Sándor Csoma. There too, people must see what we gave and what we continue to give to Europe. On 13 May this exhibition will also arrive to Covasna”, said Csaba Sógor, according to whom “occasions such as this one allow us to think about what these people carried with them from home. Csoma left from this place and, although he later went to live and study in Aiud and Göttingen”, his perseverance and fortitude, as well as his devotion to his nation and his religion are due to the firmness and discipline of his community that made him the great man he was.
