sentences:  Márton was one of the first intellectuals to oppose the preparations for World War II in public and he had started this in 1938 prior to his appointment as a bishop.He remained in the southern part of Transylvania, which remained part of Romania following the Second Vienna Award in 1940, unlike the northern part, which became part of Hungary.In a speech he gave in Saint Michael's Church - during a visit to Kolozsvár on 18 May 1944 (for the ordination of three new priests) - he condemned the prepared deportation of the Romanian and Hungarian Jews.