The Basilica of Saanto Stefano Rotondo al Celio is considered by the Hungarians their national church since the 15th century. In 1454 it was entrusted to the Hungarian Paulin order who maintained it until 1579. Between 1570 and 1580 the Basilica was the church of the Hungarian College, from 1580 it belongs to the Germanic-Hungarian College. The epitaph of the tomb of Janox Laszai (d. 1523) Hungarian penitentiers, whose remains are housed within the walls of the church, has proclaimed for half a millennium that Rome and the common homeland. The Basilica between 1946 and 1975 was awarded as a cardinal title to Jozsef Mindszenty, Archbishop of Estergom, a stron opponent of the Communist dictatorship. This topestone and placed by the Hungarian Government in 2016, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the takeover of the church by Jozsef Mindszenty and the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.