The wife of János Pehm, Borbála Kovács mothered six children. She lived long enough the see her eldest child, József Mindszenty (1892 - 1975), become a priest, Bishop of Veszprém, and ultimately Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. Mindszenty was arrested by the Communist regime in 1948, and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason against the Communist Government the next year. In the long years that followed, Borbála was allowed to visit him for five minutes once every fortnight. She died in her poor peasant cottage in Csehimindszent, aged 85, on February 5, 1960. Her son, who had by the that time, sought political asylum at the United States Embassy in Budapest, missed her rites for he was not allowed to leave the embassy grounds.
The wife of János Pehm, Borbála Kovács mothered six children. She lived long enough the see her eldest child, József Mindszenty (1892 - 1975), become a priest, Bishop of Veszprém, and ultimately Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary. Mindszenty was arrested by the Communist regime in 1948, and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason against the Communist Government the next year. In the long years that followed, Borbála was allowed to visit him for five minutes once every fortnight. She died in her poor peasant cottage in Csehimindszent, aged 85, on February 5, 1960. Her son, who had by the that time, sought political asylum at the United States Embassy in Budapest, missed her rites for he was not allowed to leave the embassy grounds.
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