The violence is from homophobia. From my perspective, Szabolcs wasn't so bad because at least he chose to stay at his grandfather's house and stay with Alan. The wrong thing he did was the calling for Bernard's coming.
History hates a vacuum. Improvisation, some of it very sincere. Fills the gaps. It would have been easy to falsify a past back then, A few words, credulity-- Time would do the rest ……It's always been a small step from a fallen leader to a god.