Pázmáneum

The Pázmáneum (in Latin Collegium Pazmanianum) is a university in Vienna, founded in 1619 by Péter Pázmány as a seminary for Hungarian theological candidates, and it was confirmed by Pope Urban VIII in December 1623.

In 1618, Péter Pázmány, Archbishop of Esztergom purchased a Viennese building for the Pázmáneum with his own personal funds.

After the First World War, the disintegration of the Austria-Hungary created a peculiar situation for the Pázmáneum, as Hungarian students found it difficult to get to Vienna from across the border.

Many people called on Mindszenty in the Pázmáneum: on several occasions he was visited by Cardinal Franz König, Opilio Rossi, the apostolic nuncio, and Otto von Habsburg.

At the end of April 1975, weak and sick, he returned from a long South American pastoral trip.