When István Szij was born on 2 January 1918, in Vép, Vas, Hungary, his father, István Szij, was 35 and his mother, Borbálya Kajcsos, was 29. He married Erzsébet Takács on 11 August 1945, in Vép, Vas, Hungary. He died on 12 July 1981, in Szombathely, Vas, Hungary, at the age of 63.
Usual English spelling of the name of the first Christian martyr (Acts 6–7), whose feast is accordingly celebrated next after Christ's own ( 26 December ). His name is derived from the Greek word stephanos ‘garland, crown’.
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