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100 1 _aNyirő, József,
_d1889-1953
245 1 0 _aIsten igájában I.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-13
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library
520 _a"Isten igájában I." by József Nyirő is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows a young Transylvanian seminarian, Hargithay József, who struggles between an austere priestly calling, family poverty, and a first, tender love. It is an intimate, psychological portrait of faith and identity forged inside a strict Catholic seminary. The opening of the novel plunges the narrator into a centuries‑old seminary whose oppressive grandeur, rigid rules, and ritual silence unsettle him. Feeling like an interloper among zealous peers, he battles his conscience in chapel and, in turmoil, tears up Margitka’s photograph. After receiving the blue cassock and a stern rebuke from the ascetic Adorján Ferenc, he undergoes meditations on vocation, then confesses to the spiritual director that poverty and duty to his family drove him to the priesthood. Studies and mysticism both exalt and exhaust him; sensual temptations flare, shift into a rarefied “spiritual” longing, and he resolves to leave. That night Adorján dies dramatically while attempting to say Mass, and the funeral Requiem deepens the sense of mortality. A bishop‑ordered retreat led by the severe P. Bús intensifies the pressure until the narrator’s crisis breaks in an ecstatic, cathartic violin performance, after which he wakes calmer and recommits himself to contemplation and the path of sanctity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cKolozsvár: Erdélyi Szépmíves Céh, 1930
653 _aHungarian fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77694
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