Judge Lucian
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* Zsitvaújfalu, April 4, 1898 – † Komárom, May 15, 1990 / high school teacher, textbook writer, editor ; ; He completed his theological studies in Pannonhalma, and also obtained a Hungarian-Latin teaching qualification. He was ordained a priest on June 29, 1922. Between 1922 and 1939, he was a teacher and director of the Benedictine high school in Komárom, and between 1939 and 1944, he was the director of the Benedictine high school in Komárom. From 1945, he was the director of the Benedictine high school in Komárom, until 1949, he was the head of the monastery there, and from 1944 to 1978, he was the vicar of the abbot of Pannonhalma in Slovakia. From 1946, he was a pastor in Komárom. In 1949, he was interned with his fellow monks in Northern Slovakia, from where he was only able to return to his Hungarian followers in 1960, after which he served in Balony, Medvé, and Nyárad. Between the two world wars, he was the organizer of Hungarian scouting in Slovakia and the editor of several newspapers (Tábortűz, Szőz Mária Új Virágos Kertje, Komáromi Római Katholikus Autonóm Egyházség Értesítője). He compiled a Hungarian language book for Hungarian high schools in the Highlands. He initiated liturgical reform, in 1933 he was the editor of the Liturgical Lexicon, and in 1989 he was the co-author of the Verbényi–Aratóféle new liturgical lexicon, revised in the spirit of the Council. In 1947, during the period of disenfranchisement of Hungarians, he illegally published a prayer book (Our Father) and a Catholic calendar. He took part in the events of 1968, was in the Synodal Renewal movement, for which he was harassed after 1968, and was forced to retire in 1970. From then until his death, he was an assistant pastor in Komárom. In 1989, he was awarded the Áron Márton Memorial Medal in Budapest. One of the lecture halls in the Selye János High School in Komárom bears his name.