Denis Farkasfalvy, theologist
Denis Farkasfalvy ‑ a Hungarian-American, Roman Catholic priest and monk of the Cistercian Order – died of Covid-19 on May 20, 2020.
He was an abbot, theologian, author and translator.
His baptismal name was Miklós; his father was a mechanical engineer. As a schoolboy he attended the school run by Cistercian priests in his home town of Székesfehérvár. After it was closed down by the communist government, in 1948 he transferred to the famous school run by Benedictines in Pannonhalma. He graduated in 1954 and became a clandestine Cistercian novice for Zirc Abbey in 1955; the monastery was officially suppressed at the time. His name in monastic life was Dionysius.
After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 he took the advice of his novice master L&...