Pauline Church, Pecs

The Pauline Church was built in 1937 and is one of Hungary's architectural masterpieces. The building was designed by Károly Weichinger. Visitors will be surprised by the wonderful Zsolnay ceramics statue of the Virgin Mary that stands before the Church, and of course by the colorful sculpture by Victor Vasarely facing the building.

The altar of the church is made from bronze and depicts a scene in which Prince Saint Emerich is kneeling in front of the Virgin Mary. The Pauline order was established in 1252 and in the thirteenth century hermits from the caverns and woods were collected together by Bishop Bartholomew and organized the monastery. At the end of the 1930s a hermit house of the Pauline monks was built near the Church.