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Bethlen Kata

She was a court clerk and she moved in Hoghiz in 1722.
Being a great personality and charitable she use to build and renovate churches and she was a sponsor for pupils and students.
She uses to have the greatest library in the town.
She has a paper mill to produce the paper for different kind of books actually many of the time books was reproduced on that paper made in her mill.
The handicraft made by her hands were special i.e. the wedding costume donate to the Fagaras church or the handicraft donate to Hoghiz church.
She donates many thing especially religious artifacts to 52 churches.
She knows also medicine because she was very ill all the time and that's why very interested in healing illness. She knows mostly traditional medicine.
By her powerful personality she determined the parish to became a Calvin one.
At the beginning the mesa were in the Haller House and then a church was build in 1735. When the people were to many, the old church was demolished and the present church was built in 1749.
Her first husband was catholic and when he passes away in 1749 the House of Habsburg took her children.
She was interested to bring young and very good priests from Aiud Theological Institute.
She creates many foundations to pay the priests and she hasn't donated at all land or other properties.
After the 1809 inflation the Hoghiz church remained the poorest church that's why the priest came rare and they weren't so good as the ancient priests were.