The story of the Blessed Virgin - chapel

In the southwestern part of Csepreg, on the right side of the road coming from Szombathely, opposite
the gravel road that leads out, named after the Blessed Virgin, curves around the cemetery
to the chapel. The name has been around since the Middle Ages, and today it is not only the
place of worship, but the entire border area, the Blessed Virgin flowing there -
he also marked the stream and the reservoir that collects its water with this name.
Few people know that today's Alsóváros was the estate of the Frankó (Gős) family
area was called Sár, also known as Boldogsszonyfalva, from 1392
according to the written text.
Visitors can reach the shrine by the Calvary stations. The meaning of the word is one
Latin name of the hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified. THE
On fourteen white columns, the creators depicted the story of the Redeemer's suffering.
The original paintings were taken out and placed in safety in the parish, only the
their authentic copies are visible behind the glass. The sacral is covered with shingles
columns in 1867 from the bricks of the dilapidated Church of Our Lady
it was built at the expense of the director of the sugar factory, Gusztáv Carstanjen. THE
knight wanted to ensure the continuity of the religious character of the place. The 1
hundreds of believers have been marching on the kilometer-long Way of the Cross since the distant centuries, except for
prohibition period after the Second World War, on August 15 of each year,
For the farewell devotion on Assumption Day. The neglected is sacred
the renovation of the route began in the fall of 2004.

The Representative Body of the City of Csepreg is the KÁLVÁRIA OF DANUBE
He registered it in the THEMATIC PATH project at the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
leading road, which is also part of the national Mária-út.
The exact history of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the name of its builder are not known
we know On the other hand, it is a known fact that the area of ​​today's Csepreg was occupied by II. King Géza
was donated to the ancestors of the Frankói Gős family by a donation letter dated 1156
Based on. The answer can also be found in the chronicle of this family.
Thought-provoking assessment from art historian Terézia Kerny,
which was described by a 1340
about a work made around. The painted, gilded, silver-plated, 80 cm high pear tree
statue depicts the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus in her arms. The researcher

considers it conceivable that any of the churches in Csepreg could have been the property of
favor object. It also names the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the eponymous owner.
The time of the creation of the Madonna statue and the history of Sándor Farkas, the Csepreg
the parish priest's speculations about the construction of the church standing in the field in the 14th century
They also coincide with Teréziá Kerny's research.
(The statue is now kept by the Old Hungarian Collection of the Hungarian National Gallery.)
The Church of the Blessed Virgin gives little guidance for the next 200 years
to his story. Sándor Farkas notes in his work that from 1560 to 1652 a
it was owned by Protestants. In 1693, Bolgossassonyi is already mentioned
about hermits. In the intervening period, from 1731 to 1740, the Jesuit monks of Vienna
they owned Csepreg. It is possible that it is the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
lived in his monastery.

From 1545 to 1557, the monk László Horváth was a hermit here. The environment and
in writing about keeping the church, hermitages in order, and management
took notes. Contact with church members living in the area
held. He also visited Rome in 1753. On the support of the hermits, including his guard, a
every landlord took care of it. After the death of the above-mentioned friar, a
out of respect for his person, he was buried under the altar of the church. The aftermath of this
an element of the local folklore that is still told today.
In the Middle Ages, a parish church could be a place of farewell with a special legal status.
Its significance is shown by the fact that a religious guild was organized around it, which is the most advanced
was typical of medieval cities. The church was taken by a large open field
around. This created an opportunity for the XIV-XV. based on the known data of centuries a
to hold the county and palatial meetings, at which dignitaries of the time: Kont
Palatines Miklós, Miklós Garai and regional judge Simon Rozgonyi presided,
but county Spaniards could also convene a general assembly.
This may have been the temple in Csepreg that was led by Nankenreiter Nebuchadnezzar
the Hussites reinforced it, and János Hunyadi became national captain in 1454
besieged the unwelcome "guests" from its territory.
The church of the Blessed Virgin also included a cemetery, which was covered with a stone wall
around. In the 1840s, they were still buried in this place, but only Jankovich
we have data on family burials. Count Antal Jankovich Daruvári, royal
master tárnok, as well as his wife, Katalin Nemeskéri Kiss, and the seven-year-old
the ancient building was the resting place of their deceased child Antal.

In 1856, Miss Hartmann Etelka, the daughter of the Csepreg pharmacist, made a drawing
he made about the crumbling church and the nearby hermitage. Some
ten years later, parish priest Sándor Farkas found her in a family, and from Csepreg
in his upcoming monograph in 1887, he inserted it as an illustration on page 398.
Based on this, we can remember the building of the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a long history.
With its square-stone, spherical-domed, double-arched tower windows, also in its dimensions
imposing monument collapsed in 1861.

(Hartmann's drawing by Etelka *can be viewed in the gallery below)

It was erected on the site of its ruins, and in 1869 the neo-Gothic church that still stands today was consecrated
chapel, which was "mercifully" built by count Gyula Jankovics in memory of his predecessors.
The old hermitage still stood next to the church. Its resident, the last hermit, is one
woman: István Reseterics, who wore it until her death in 1973
his office. His grandson and his family live in Ady Street. Many people add a before their name
"Hermit" distinctive name, not as an insult, but our traditions
as part of.
The spirit of the people also created the history of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
his idea. Even the storytellers did not know that it was an epic known throughout Europe
they created a genre: miraculom in Latin, which in our language is a miracle story
means The Jankovics were the owners of Csepreg for only 150 years, the people who live here

yet his imagination wove a legend around them. Their persons were connected by the ancient
with a church. The church was created from word of mouth
the greatness and heavenly power of his patron, the Blessed Virgin.

Ringing of bells

Around 1800, there was a landowner who had property in Croatia and in Kincséd.
There was only anger and revenge in this man's heart.
He was very angry with those who did not like him. On his estate in Croatia
potted. He didn't like his potter's work and simply shot the
from the roof. The anger that had been brewing in the hearts of the villagers became even sharper. THE
landlord had to flee. One of his servants escaped by hiding in a hay wagon
to his treasured possession. However, he couldn't hang around here for long either. Soon
died. There is a chapel not far from Csepreg. He buried himself there because
it was built by his predecessor. There lived a sacristan called a hermit, who a
he took care of the chapel. A day or two after the lord's death, at night, he is huge
he woke up to a roar. He looked around, but the bells didn't see an orphaned soul anywhere
around, they just buzzed and buzzed. He hastily set off towards Csepreg, to report to
what happened to the parish priest. The people of the village have already gathered there. They went together
with the pastor to the chapel. Arriving there in front of the Virgin Mary standing in front of the chapel
to a standing statue, the statue came to life and swam in brightness. all of this
however, only the old, good-natured priest saw and heard the words of Our Lady:
- Get this bastard out of here, because if not, I'm leaving. The parish priest immediately
arranged. They also came for the coffin from Kincséd on a cart pulled by six pairs of oxen.
They put the coffin on, and the six pairs of oxen could only drag the dead man away, sweating.
The evil lord was buried in the pit in Kincséd. Once this was done, the
The statue of Our Lady froze again and the bells fell silent.
(Katalin Hetyésy- Lászlón Sudár: A Répce mente meséi és mondái, Szombathely, 1996. p. 85-86. Place of record: Bő,
1979)

It's small

The Boldogasszony lake broke out from the body of the Boldogasszony stream in the southern border
too. What water the Bene - mountain - lake cannot contain is the water that passes through the sluices
flows on to the also artificial water reservoir. Since it is close to
Our Lady - chapel, the lake also got its name. Eye-catching
it fits into the landscape with its cultured environment. If not for phylloxera at the end of the 19th century
would have exterminated the vineyards of Csekéd, the famous can still be seen in the bright water
vineyard. Sándor Farkas details it in his already mentioned work on page 199
Count Ferenc Nádasdy reformed his urbarium on July 1, 1658, in which
names the owners of the new vineyard in Csekéd: serfs, parish priests and the
School - house. "Also, within the boundaries of the same city, there are lands of the Church. . .,
Wealth again around the lower Church, which Church under the Vines is Blessed -
It is called the Church of Women." The twenty-line urbarium - five times in the text
the name Csékéd is included. The border part may have been more significant than we suspected.
The remaining vineyards disappeared in the first half of the 20th century. Today the sloping area is arable,
he grows an ear of wheat. However, memory does not leave descendants alone. The
Following the example of the association "For destroyed and dying Hungarian villages" in Szeged,
Together with university professor László Blazovich, it was established on April 30, 2011
the Sándor Farkas Society the gray marble memorial column, Gábor Popovics
a stonemason's gift. The then eighty-five-year-old Lajos Pájer also carried out the dead body
village, two vines next to Csékéd's monument. You planted some yourself
with help. Grow, thrive! Let the one who always creates, not into destruction
the greatness of a man at rest.
The first stage of daily pilgrimages to the Blessed Virgin from Acsád is Csekédi
memorial site. The visitors pay their respects by singing and reciting poetry. So far Lökkös
Antal's poem Búcsújórók and Zsuzsanna T. Molnár: A vanished village
remembering c. his narrative poem was available to poets.

Zsuzsanna T. Molnár:
Remembering a Vanished Village (2011)

A village stood here for many hundreds of years,
The landscape keeps its name faithfully,
And a Latin line of a diploma,
A written sign that it was once there.

The clay keeps its secret deep,
The bone doesn't believe, it's a piece of pottery
Looking back today,
Guess is the word on our lips.

They lived the fate of jobbágy villages,
King and lord made the law
For their robotic, difficult days,
They lived, they fought, they died.

Ladies, if they spun a thread,
They wove their desires into canvas,
Turkeys were waiting for a better day,
An easier, more peaceful tomorrow.

To say a prayer on Sunday
They went over to the Blessed Virgin.
They asked for a good harvest, good lord,
Fire should not reach their house.

They waved prayers to the sky,
Leave the proud army,
If Kontok and Garák saw him here
A formidable, powerful warrior.

Then, once this people disappeared,
Only one vineyard remained in its place,
And new sowers came,
They direct their fate differently.

But the soul wandered into the night'
He sometimes hears it from Ablánc
István and Péter are royal servants
His painful trumpet speech.

Antal Lökkös:
Farewell Walkers (1959)

They go to him who brings a blessing,
To the Lady of Csepreg.
Yellow morning along rapeseed
With back-pushing footwear.
Across the meadow of sárży büki
With a reader in hand.
Applesauce all the way through
They look around in awe.
The apples are round
And what else does the earth need?
Litany of care
Like dust rising up after you.
They sing: Szép Nagysszony,
Have mercy on the peasant!

The history of the place is only a small slice of Csepreg's past, whose beauty,
the generations living here repeat their uniqueness over and over again in the course of time
they discover it and experience it with a loyal spirit during their holidays. Keep it up!

Sincerely: Zsuzsanna Molnár Sudár Lászlóné