The Rock Chapel on Gellért Hill in Budapest is a national shrine. Its construction was completed by Károly Weichinger in the spring of 1931, based on the plans of Kálmán Lux. In 1934, a neo-Romanesque monastery was added to the church on the Danube side of Gellért Hill. The Hungarian Palatines did not revive in Hungary for 150 years after the dissolution of the order. The rock church was built for the Palatines, the only male order of monks founded in Hungary to return to their homeland. Other names.
In the rock church is kept one of the most precious relics of the Pauline Fathers: the leg bone of Saint Paul the Hermit. The altar of the church was made in the Zsolnay factory in Pécs.
On 15 May 1994, the Polish-Hungarian Friendship Society donated a replica of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa to the church to mark the 60th anniversary of the return of the Palatines. The Polish altar, a bronze eagle created by Bronisław Chromy, was erected in the Chapel of Our Lady of Częstochowa on that date. There is also a bronze plaque commemorating Polish internees and a relief of St Maximilian Kolbe by Mary Majcik.[1]
The new cross was designed by the architect András Pomsár and was erected in 2001. The last piece of this cross was installed by the builders on the very day it was demolished for ideological reasons fifty years earlier.
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