This study seeks to explore the origin, background and meaning of anunknown work of the famous late Renaissance humanist, Reformedtheologian, linguist and wandering Hungarian scholar Albert Szenci Molnár(1574-1634). The print is the oldest known early modern leafletwritten in the Hungarian language. It was recently discovered in therich print collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, after being lostfor 150 years. The leaflet consists of a print engraved by DominicusCustos (1560, Antwerp - 1615, Augsburg) depicting a crowned, winged woman as a personification of True Religion, and a conversation/dialogue and a fictiveconversation between this figure and the supposed reader of thepamphlet in Latin and Hungarian. The female figure and theconversation were originally composed by the French theologian TheodoreBeza (De Béze 1519-1605) in 1561. It was reused by the Flemish artistHieronymus Wierix (1553-1619), for an allegory of the Pacification ofGent (1576), which was published by Pieter Balten(s) of Antwerp, thefather of Custos (1525?-1584). The figure of True Religion waswell-known everywhere in Europe as a symbol of protestant politics. Itsymbolised Providence, which ordained the destiny of Christian Europein favour of the Protestants. Szenci Molnár deliberately chose thisactual European symbol to promote his political ideas. The Religioimage and text spread by Szenci Molnár became the symbol of thepolitical compromise between the protestant estates and the Habsburgruler of 1606 (Peace of Vienna). It was as such used several timesafter 1606 in other work of Szenci Molnár, Rimay János and others.<br/
