Szent László emlékezete a Szepességben és Sárosban
The memory of Saint Ladislaus in Szepesség and Sáros

Author(s): Zoltán Magyar
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Culture and social structure
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Summary/Abstract: The study examines a little-known regional focus of the folk tradition of King Saint Ladislaus, the traditions related to Saint Ladislaus mentioned in the northeastern highlands, today part of Slovakia, in the counties of Szepes and Sáros. These traditions related to the topography of the region, church titles, medieval artworks and records of cult traces in charters are mostly directly or indirectly connected with the settlement areas of the former Hungarian ethnic rural population of these two counties. With the disappearance of the Hungarians in Szepes and Sáros counties in the Middle Ages and the late modern period (as well as their conversion to Protestantism), the narrative textual monuments that presumably existed and that can be deduced from the sporadic surviving data have also largely disappeared. My thesis attempts to register these cult traces and, where possible, to present them.

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