Providentially, a few weeks ago, the entire building, where the headquarters of the Hungarian Province and some other buildings, including the printing house where Stephen Sándor worked, which the communist regime had nationalized 72 years ago, was handed back to the Salesians as their property. It was in these courtyards that an emotional celebration took place, attended by numerous members of the Salesian Family. At the beginning of the celebration, the Provincial, Fr János Andrásfalvy, extended greetings to all present, in particular to the Rector Major, the Regional Councillor for Central and Northern Europe, Fr Roman Jachimowicz, the Postulator General, Fr Pierluigi Cameroni, Fr Jorge Crisafulli, Superior of the Province of Africa Nigeria Niger (ANN), Fr Albert Van Hecke, former Provincial in Hungary, and Mr Bryan Magro, World President of the Confederation of Past Pupils. The presence of some older men who had been boys in Stephen Sándor's time or his fellow prisoners was most significant.

The Rector Major, in his homily, stressed the fact that it is God who guides history and events, even when it is human beings who wish to pursue death and injustice: “Blessed Stephen Sándor is coming home and we, the Salesian Family, friends of Don Bosco, Salesians of Don Bosco can return home to where we live and continue to do good… Stephen Sándor’s relics, like the relics of all the saints and blesseds, are like stars in the heavens that strengthen our faith… A Reliquary has a strong symbolic meaning expressing Stephen Sándor’s life; in particular is the Salesian cross with its motto “Strive to make yourself loved”. The Lord’s cross is stronger than all of the world’s chains. You can injure a few thinkers, you can kill a few people, but you can never silence God; you cannot silence the goodness of so many people who cherish the faith and the Gospel. Here we have the testimony of a young Salesian Brother, a printer who assisted among the boys, taught catechism, loved God and Don Bosco, and his life is more forceful because he is a model of life for us.

The Reliquary, the work of a goldsmith, holds the rediscovered relics identified in 2019.

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