Roch Kereszty
Hungarian-American monk and scholar
Roch András Kereszty (February 6, 1933 – December 14, 2022) was a Hungarian-American monk and scholar.
Life
Kereszty was born in Budapest on February 6, 1933. His mother was a high-school teacher and his father a decorated veteran. Neither were practicing Catholics; they struggled to maintain a stable marriage.
Kereszty attended a school run by Cistercian priests from Zirc Abbey and entered the novitiate at a time when the abbey was suppressed by the Communist regime, making it necessary to hold classes in secret, and at great danger. Soon after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, he fled to Rome. where he continued his studies. He took solemn vows for Zirc Abbey while a refugee in Austria, with the abbot of Lilienfeld Abbey as a proxy on 18 September 1960. Two weeks later, on 2 October 1960, he was ordained a priest by the bishop of St. Pölten, in his private chapel.
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