Sacred small memorial

Votive cross in front of the Catholic school

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Very little is known about this votive iron cross, whose corpus is also metal. Its original inscription, which was readable on the stone slab under the feet of the crucified Savior, was completely worn away decades ago. After 1945, the cross, like many other small sacred monument... Read More

The Calvary of Bősi

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The erection of the hundred-year-old Calvary, located not far from the church, was initiated by parish priest Ferenc Kirchknopf. ; It was consecrated on May 5, 1907. The Calvary hill was built by the faithful, and the wood for the three crosses was provided by János Kneiff, a lan... Read More

Nagymegyer roadside cross

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A wayside cross (lat. crux viator), a roadside cross: a stone, wooden cross (or tin, sheet metal cross) erected along the road at borders. Its role in daily practice is to help with orientation by indicating the end/beginning of geographical regions. This was probably the role... Read More

Image column in Nagyabony (Nemesabony)

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The 18th century pillar chapel is located not far from the Catholic church in Nagyabony, along the road separating Nagyabony from Hodos. Read More

Polish Cross – Pietà in your Fairytale

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In Lidertejed, next to the sports field, we can now find the painful statue of the Virgin with a cross, which, due to its inscription – and of course its previous “existence in Szerdahely” – must be classified as a monument of Dunaszerdahely. ; On the pedestal under the cross and... Read More

The grave of Bishop József Vázsonyi

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Two former recognized figures of public life, József Haskó (1828–1901) and József Vázsonyi (1847–1923), Catholic parish priests, rest next to each other in the Dunaszerdahely public cemetery. ; ; Vázsonyi was also an outstanding personality of the city, so much so that he was awa... Read More

Wolf's Cross

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The sandstone, whitewashed Statue of St. John of Nepomuk stands along the Párkány - Érsekújvár highway; ; Local tradition holds that it was erected out of gratitude by a young man who was attacked by wolves and then fortunately escaped. The story, as told by József Szulik, has al... Read More

Monument to fallen heroes in Vámosladány

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A monument to the soldiers of Vámosladány who fell in World War I, behind which you can find a roadside cross... Read More

Statue of Saint John of Csiliznyáradi

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In our region, we can often find a statue depicting St. John of Nepomuk, while the statue of St. John the Apostle is rare. This statue is located at the crossroads of the different roads towards Bős in Csiliznyárad, and is the oldest church statue in the settlement (according to ... Read More

Holy Family iconostasis with niche in Szapi

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A special form of sacral monuments is the image column with a niche, in the upper third of which there is a recess with a plaster statue of a saint. The image columns were made of stone or brick. The Szapi image column was made in 1914, the year of the outbreak of World War I. Th... Read More