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Revision as of 20:57, 30 October 2006 by MarkBA~enwiki (talk | contribs) (started article)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Černová tragedy (Template:Lang-sk, Template:Lang-hu) was a bloody tragedy in Černová (now part of Ružomberok) on 27 October 1907.
Course of events
In Černová, inhabitants decided to build a catolic church from their own finances and from the initiative of Andrej Hlinka, their own native priest and they wanted him to sanctify a church. However, he was suspended by the Spiš bishop Párvy at that time due to the "Anti-Hungarian sedition". Instead, he appointed Slovak priest Martin Pazúrik from Lisková, and he came to sanctify the church on 27th October in a coach with underofficer Pereszlényi and some gendarmes. The main road was already filled with angry crowd and coaches couldn't move further, so the commander of gendarmes, Ján Ladiczky, gave order to shoot. The gendarmes fired four times, what resulted in killing 15 people, seriously injuring 12 and lightly injured 60. In addition, 40 people were imprisoned or financially penalized.
Hlinka was in Czechia and Moravia on a lecture tour at the time of tragedy, where he was welcomed as a martyr and hero, where he said more anti-Hungarian statements, for what he was sentenced for 27 months.
Reactions
The tragedy sparked huge protests in the European press and it turned world's attention to the attitude to the minorities in Hungary.
After the order of pope Pius X, Hungarian authorities were forced to rehabilitate Hlinka and in 1910, he finally sanctied the church in his native village.