Bishop József Mindszenty of Veszprém returned to his episcopal seat in Veszprém on April 20, 1945, after five months of imprisonment by the Arrow Cross regime. By that time, Father István Oross, the parish priest of Fűzfőgyártelep, had already reported to the episcopal chancellery that Mária Magdolna Bódi had been murdered by a Soviet soldier while defending her purity. Bishop Mindszenty believed that the circumstances of Magdi’s death indicated true martyrdom and therefore ordered preliminary information gathering.
