Several programmes will be organised in Hungary and beyond the borders to mark the Day of National Cohesion, the anniversary of the Trianon peace treaty concluding WWI, on June 4, according to the state secretary in charge of policies for Hungarian communities abroad in the Prime Minister’s Office.
National Cohesion Day this year will coincide with Pentecost, a traditional date of pilgrimage of Hungarians to Șumuleu Ciuc (Csiksomlyó), in central Romania, Árpád János Potápi told a press conference. Prayer messages by Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin and in the diaspora who cannot attend will be delivered to the pilgrimage site with the Pentecostal horse-ride held for the fifth time, he said. The motto of this year’s Csiksomlyó pilgrimage is “Pax et Bonum”, Potápi said, referring to the war in Ukraine.
Hungary’s parliament declared June 4 Day of National Cohesion in May 2010 to mark the anniversary of the Trianon treaty signed on this day in 1920, Potápi noted, adding that with the law the parliament reaffirmed Hungary’s commitment towards maintaining and nurturing relations between the members of the Hungarian nation and Hungarian communities. “Despite of all the hardships of the past one hundred years, we are here, we have survived,” he said.
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