April 22, 2024 Sandro Baricevic has published an excellent article about our Order on The Investiture website, which can be read in English at the link below. https://theinvestiture.substack.com/p/forged-in-honor-the-enduring-legacy
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A Vitézi Rend
A Vitézi Rendet Magyarország kormányzója alapította „a legbátrabbak tiszteletére és az áldozatok emlékére”. A Vitézi Rend hisz a vallás, a nemzet és a család mint alapelvek fontosságában. Mindenekelőtt fontosnak tartja Magyarország nemzeti szuverenitásának megőrzését, a nemzeti értékek tiszteletben tartását, valamint a keresztény életmód ösztönzését.
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The Order of Vitéz
The Order of Vitéz was founded by the Regent of Hungary “to honor the bravest and remember their sacrifice”. The Order of Vitéz believes in the importance of fundamental principles such as religion, nation and family. First of all, it considers it important to preserve Hungary’s national sovereignty, the national values and to encourage a christian way of living.
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Our History
In 1928, in the preface to the large volume titled A magyar nemzet hadtörténelme (A military history of the Hungarian nation), Archduke and Field Marshal Vitez Joseph August of Habsburg-Lorraine wrote, “In most cases, the past is but a mirror of the future which gives a clear picture of how to avoid big troubles and how serve a better future. Let us learn from this work, and let us not be disheartened, because the strong Hungarian spirit is is still alive.”
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The Values
The Order of Vitéz is a Military Order based on Christian confession and encouraging a life with the highest ethical values.
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The Mission
The Order of Vitéz was founded by the Regent of Hungary “to honor the bravest and remember their sacrifice.”
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Organizational Structure
Főkapitány (Captain General): HIRH Vitéz Joseph Karl von Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary.
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News
Blessed Easter Order of Vitéz!
March 27, 2024 Our spiritual staff captain, Dr. Vitéz Imre Vejkey de Vejke greets the members of the Order of Vitéz with the following lines on the occasion of the blessed holiday of Easter.
Our Captain General’s statement on hate speech
March 1, 2024 Our Captain General’s statement on hate speech can be read at the links below, in Hungarian and English. https://www.vitezi-rend.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Fokapitanyi_nyilatkozat_2024_02_26_HU.pdf https://www.vitezi-rend.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Fokapitanyi_nyilatkozat_2024_02_26_EN.pdf
Farewell to Vitéz Sándor István Sebestyén, Seat Captain of Northeast Hungary Region
January 22, 2024 With deep sorrow, we announce that Captain Sebestyén Sándor, the Seat Captain of Northeast Hungary Region, passed away on January 19, 2024. On January 27, 2024, Saturday, at 11:00 in the morning, we bid farewell to him in Gégény, at the cemetery, according to Catholic ceremony. (17 Rákóczi Street, Gégény, 4517.) On […]
Time to pay the annual contribution for 2024
January 21, 2024 Nemzetes Confreres, Based on the decision of the Captain General and the Seat of Vitéz, the previous system of the annual membership fee will be abolished. The contribution for 2024 is optional, but should be at least EUR 50,00. The contribution shall be deposited at Nordea Bank, no later than March 30, […]
The Order of Vitéz was founded by the Governor of Hungary, admiral Miklós Horthy, in 1920. Its Captain General from 1977 to 2017 was József Árpád, Royal Prince of Hungary, and now his son, Prince József Károly.
Pages
- A brief history of the Order of Vitéz
- Accreditation
- Casale Monferrato – December, 2021
- Casale Monferrato – May, 2023
- Commemorating 80 years since the Don Disaster 1943
- Contact
- Fatima – September, 2021
- Heraldic usage in the Order of Vitéz
- Holidays of the Order of Vitéz
- How to join
- Hungary’s history in a nutshell
- Legénd – June, 2021
- Malta – March, 2022
- Máriapócs – August, 2021
- Máriapócs – September, 2022
- Máriapócs – September, 2023
- Oath of the Vitéz
- Order of Vitéz – Questions and Mistakes
- Organizational Structure
- Pécs – November, 2022
- Portrait Gallery of Famous Members
- Statement about the policy of the Order of Vitéz concerning nobility, nobiliary titles and membership in chivalric organisations
- Statements
- Stockholm – June, 2023
- Stockholm – October, 2021
- The day of Knightly Order of Saint Michael of the Wing – Alcobaça, Portugal, September 29, 2023
- The Mission and Values
- The Vitézi Rend (Order of Vitez), an honour superior to a Chivalric order
- Törökszentmiklós, Kenderes – May, 2022
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