Baja, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Hungary — April 23, 1911
Death data:
West Chester, PA, USA — October 7, 2008
Denomination:
Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical status:
religious
Diocese / Order:
piarista (Ordo Clericorum Regularium Pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum)
Ordination level:
priest
Entry into religious life:
Vác, Kingdom of Hungary, currently Hungary — August 27, 1929
Perpetual vows:
September 8, 1933
Priestly ordination:
Budapest, Hungary — June 14, 1936
Place of burial:
Calvary Cemetery
Devon, PA, USA
Biographical data
His chosen monastic name was Sacred Heart of Jesus. His father, Zoltán Meskó (1883–1959), was a figure in Hungarian political history between the two world wars who led a unique life; his mother was Margit Stefánia Mária Drescher. He had five siblings. He entered the order in Vác on August 27, 1929. He took his perpetual vows on September 8, 1933. He was ordained a priest in Budapest on June 14, 1936. He earned a teaching degree in Hungarian and Latin from high school. In December 1944, he was sent to Germany as a field chaplain on a hospital train; he was unable to return home from there. There, he became a chaplain for Hungarian refugees, then left for South America, and finally for the United States. He arrived in the United States on February 8, 1949, in Miami, FL.
ABTL: HU - ÁBTL - I. - 2.2.1. - IV/1 Külföldön élő személyek kartonjai, 1877-1878.;
Udvarvölgyi Zsolt András: „Rovó a romokon”. Meskó Lajos Géza SP piarista szerzetes, tanár, költő és nyelvész élete és munkássága, MEV 2002/1–2. 252–241.;
Meskó Lajos Géza Sch.P.: personal record. In: Historical directory of Hungarian, Hungarian-descended, and Hungarian-speaking clergy serving abroad. Available at: https://www.diaszporalelkipasztorok.hu/persons_v2/view.php?id=730 (accessed: 2026-07-07).
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