Claim: Catholic, Peter Pazmany was instrumental in his attempt to obstruct and weaken Protestanism, and was an important figure in Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary but his most important legacy was his creation of the Hungarian literary language.
Evidence: As a young man he was educated there and, under the Jesuits, in Kolozsvár (Cluj), which is where he converted from the Calvinist Reformed Church of Hungary to Roman Catholicism in 1583, partly under the influence of his stepmother, a Catholic. As the chief pastor of the Catholic Church in Hungary, Pázmány used every means in his power, short of absolute contravention of the laws, to obstruct and weaken Protestantism, which had risen during the 16th century. He was an important figure in the Counter-Reformation in Royal Hungary. Pázmány's most important legacy was his creation of the Hungarian literary language.