Kult sv. Jeronýma v českých zemích v období středověku
The Cult of St. Jerome in the Bohemian Lands at the Period of the Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the cult of St. Jerome in the medieval Bohemian lands. St. Jerome represents one of the most significant Christian saints, one of the Four Great Latin Church Fathers and the Doctor of The Church. The text represents the first attempt to complete processing and clarification of the manifestations reverence toward the St. Jerome at the period of the High and the Late Middle Ages and with following the usual signs of saint’s cult analyses dedication of churches, remains, histori¬cal art monuments and all the oldest known medieval legends about St. Jerome. From the presented analysis the cult of St. Jerome in the medieval Bohemian lands during the period of the Middle Ages follows, that St. Jerome was a relatively well-known and respected saint in the milieu of secular and church elites. However St. Jerome was not a saint who was widely worshiped among simple Catholic believers and on countryside as the Patron saints of the Czech lands or a group of The Fourteen Holy Helpers.

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