A St. John again... This time-after St. John's Church on Kálvária Hill and the statue of St. John Nepomuk not far from the fortress - St. John the Baptist. What brought them together in Tata in unkown. It was the 1942 Franz Joseph Prize, that drew Zoltán Magyary's attention to the statue created by Mária Kovács. The great sociologist, filled with local patriotism, proposed to place the sculpture in Tata, on the lake shore opposite Miklós Mill. Just like its pair, the statue by Schweiger, this sculpture also became a victim of a barbarous demolition. However, Tata's renowned artist and teacher Lajos Dobroszláv managed to rescue it. Later, the statue was kept at the parish-church in Tata during the years when the presence of religious works of art in public places was disapproved. Nevertheless, a small community - the Circle of Tata's Friend's - considered the sculptor's and patron's original intentions more important. That why the statue stands there, in suitable surroundings, on a small, artifical island in the lake.