Mrs. Hetényi Varga is the widow and co-author of Károly Hetényi Varga, who herself did research on clericals who had suffered under the dictatorships of the 20^th century. She was born in Szécsény in 1930 as Borbála Varga. After finishing secondary school (1946), she couldn’t continue her studies because of the hard political and economic situation. She later graduated from school and worked at the office of the National Insurance Company. She had to seek treatment at the Korányi Sanatorium (Budapest), because she got tuberculosis in October 1956. She underwent surgery in 1957. After her recovery, she worked at the Sanatorium (1958–1960), where she met Károly Hetényi Varga, who himself sought treatment there. In July 1960, they got married, and soon they had two boys: Péter Pius (1961) and Károly József (1962). Borbála Varga started to work in the surgery in the Komló City Hospital, but after the birth of their first child, she worked as a regional nurse until her retirement. She helped with their husband’s church historical research, typing the audio materials and sorting sorted the documents, which later were edited by her husband. She was the first reader and the first person to correct the manuscripts. After the death of her husband (2002), she offered Hetényi Varga’s collection to the Cistercian Abbey of Kismaros.