Adatok az Élő Rózsafüzér társulatok székelyföldi megjelenéséhez és elterjedéséhez
Data Regarding the Appearance and Spreading of Living Rosary Societies in Szeklerland

Summary/Abstract: The study treats the spreading and developing of rosary societies, especially the appearance of the Living Rosary Society from the Szeklerland in the 19th century. We tried to sum up the number of communities of rosary type which existed and organised in the parish churches towards the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Alba Iulia, supported on the inventories drawn up in the 1900 and 1928. In the inventories we found important informations about the institution of this community, also it gave us exact dates about the number of the members and the names of the leaders and the founder president. After a comparative study maded, we stated a 50% spreading in the archdeaconries – with two exceptionsknown in 1900.This proportion reached the 93% until the 1928. We have also found that in both inventories appeared different data of formation. Perhaps this is because the Dominican Order haven’t recognized the legitimacy of companies before they received the privilege in 1877 from Pope Pius IX (who ordered the rosary type companies under legislation, organization, leadership of Dominican order). So in the jubilee book, made by them have that date of formation when company leaders received legal nominations from the Dominicans. Finally we draw attention to the fact that inventories studied have some shortcomings, inaccuracies. So in the future we need to collect as much accurate data from existing records for a clear vision form the occurrence of rosary communities spreading from the Szeklerland.

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