She was born on August 8, 1921, in a servant\u2019s dwelling of the mill by the Egerv\u00edz stream, in Szigliget, a picturesque part of the Balaton region.<\/p>\n
Her father, J\u00e1nos B\u00f3di<\/strong>, was probably of Upper Hungarian origin and became an orphan at an early age, raised by his siblings. As a boy, he worked as a stable hand for a military officer, who most likely settled near Badacsony after the First World War as a former prisoner of war. J\u00e1nos did not speak Hungarian well, had no personal identification documents, and did not wish to obtain any.<\/p>\n Magdi\u2019s mother, M\u00e1ria Nika<\/strong>, was from the Partium region, born in Fels\u0151szopor, Szatm\u00e1r County. She too was orphaned young and raised by her grandparents. She likely fled to Budapest during the First World War, after the Romanian invasion of Transylvania in 1916. There, she worked for several years as a maid, and around 1920 fate brought her to the Badacsony area. It was here that the young couple met and decided to spend their lives together.<\/p>\n Because J\u00e1nos lacked official papers, the parents could not marry in either a civil or church ceremony. Due to their frequent moves, those around them were often unaware that they were not married. J\u00e1nos, having lost his parents early and endured hardships in childhood, had not received a religious upbringing. With no one to care for him, he was untouched by religious life and could not pass it on to his children. He had a hot-tempered nature, and his harmful habits often cast a shadow over family life.<\/p>\n It was through Magdi\u2019s constant prayers, her voluntary acts of self-denial, and ultimately her death, that her father underwent a complete transformation \u2013 a deep, radical change in his life.<\/p>\n In contrast, Magdi\u2019s mother was a kind-hearted, devout woman who raised her children in the faith. She taught them to pray, to live a religious life, sent them to catechism and to church. However, she herself could not receive the sacraments because she had not married in the Church. Both parents loved Magdi dearly and were extremely proud of her.<\/p>\n Magdi had two brothers: the elder, Gyula<\/strong>, and the younger, J\u00e1nos<\/strong>. Gyula was in fact her stepbrother, born in Budapest in August 1918, whom their mother brought into the family. Her biological brother J\u00e1nos was born in K\u00f6vesk\u00e1l on December 10, 1923. Magdi loved both of her brothers dearly, cared for them throughout her life, and tried to keep them on the right path.<\/p>\n Longing to be closer to God \u2013 and to live that out in community \u2013 Magdi wished to become a nun, joining a female religious order or congregation. However, because her parents had not married in the Church, under ecclesiastical law she was considered of illegitimate birth, which was an obstacle to entering religious life. One of her goals in life was to see her parents\u2019 marriage regularized. After the upheavals of the Second World War, papal dispensations made it possible to marry in the Church even without complete documentation.<\/p>\n After Magdi\u2019s death, her parents fulfilled her wish and were married. Many in her community considered this the first miracle attributed to her. Her death changed her parents\u2019 thinking entirely, for until then they had had no intention of marrying, either civilly or in the Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 8, we celebrate the birthday of the Venerable Servant of God, B\u00f3di M\u00e1ria Magdolna\n <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bodimariamagdolna.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}