Engesztelő imaórák a Felső-Nyárád mentén és a Sóvidéken
Placatory Prayer Exercises on the Székely Land

Summary/Abstract: Besides appearing of Santa Maria accepted by the Church (Lourdes, Fatima) we are meeting an increase number of private statements which emphasizes the importance of the atonement since the beginning of the 20th century. Also born a variety of placatory prayer exercises from the questions and callings made by the visionaries of different nationalities (Little Pebble- Charbel cult, Pierina Gilli – Rosa Mystica cult, Mrs. Elizabeth – The Flame of Love cult, Sister Maria Natalia – Victorious Queen of the World cult) which would like to soften the sins of humanity with prayer and fast. In the late 1980s began to spread in Transylvania – urging Hungarians – several new form of devoutness which can be attach to the movement of placatory. According to the present state of research the earliest are the prayer exercises on thursday which is based on the private statements of Elisabeth Kindelmann and can be associated with the Flame of Love cult. The recent study long to undertake the comparative search of placatory devoutness which was kept weekly regular in a minor region of Székely Land, in some settlements of Holy Land and Sóvidék, in Eremitu and in Sovata.

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