PhD candidate Alina Bessenyey Williams travelled to Hungary in June to visit churches, Marian shrines, and other sacred sites to explore and document an understudied 20th-century devotional practice among Hungarian Catholics. This work was conducted as part of her ongoing dissertation project that examines a Marian political theology born out in the devotional life of lay Hungarian Catholics during the communist period. This research trip was supported by the Katherine A. Cunningham Graduate Research Fund, the College Arts & Humanities Institute Graduate Capstone Research Award, and a Graduate and Professional Student Government Doctoral Research Award.
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