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The Černová tragedy (or Černová massacre, Template:Lang-sk, Template:Lang-hu) was a bloody massacre that happened in Černová (now part of Ružomberok) on 27 October 1907.
Outline of the events
In Černová, the inhabitants decided to build a catholic church from their own finances and from the initiative of Andrej Hlinka, their own native priest. Construction started in April 1907 and by the autumn, the church was ready for consecration. However, the inhabitants requested that Hlinka should consecrate the church, otherwise they requested to delay the consecration. Hlinka was suspended by the Spiš bishop Párvy at that time due to the anti-Hungarian sedition. Instead, Párvy appointed the priest Martin Pazúrik from Lisková, and he came to sanctify the church on 27 October in a coach with underofficer Pereszlényi and some gendarmes. The main road was already filled with angry crowd and coaches could not move further, so the commander of gendarmes gave order to shoot. The gendarmes fired four times, killing 15 people, seriously injuring 12 and lightly injuring 40. In addition, 40 people were imprisoned or financially penalized.
Hlinka was in Bohemia on a lecture tour at the time of tragedy, where he was welcomed as a hero after the tragedy, where he said more anti-Hungarian statements, for what he was sentenced again, this time for 27 months.
The tragedy sparked huge protests in the European press and it turned world's attention to the attitude to the minorities in Hungary. Important protesting European personalities included the Norwegian Nobel Prize holder Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the Oxford historian Robert William Seton-Watson, the speaker of the Austrian parliament etc.
The American Slovaks used the incident for a mass campaign for Hlinka, which resulted in an order of pope Pius X in 1909, that Hungarian authorities have to rehabilitate Hlinka. In 1910 he was allowed to consecrate the church in his native village.
References
- http://www.cernova.sk/sublinks/cernovska_masakra1.html (Slovak)
- http://www.cernova.sk/sublinks/cernovska_masakra3.html (Slovak)