St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church

Vásárút first had a wooden church – at least that’s what the sources say – dedicated to the martyr Saint George. However, this was washed away by a medieval flood. For about three and a half decades, services were held in a “holy tent” and a stone church was built much later. It was consecrated in 1672, in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua. However, this did not prove to be long-lived either, as it was destroyed by fire in 1754. The then provost of Bratislava, Count József Batthyányi – later Cardinal Archbishop of Esztergom – began to push for its reconstruction. He largely covered the costs himself. After the church was completed, he consecrated it in 1757 as provost of Bratislava, again in honor of Saint Anthony of Padua. However, since it was a large settlement and a large congregation, the church consecrated by Batthyány soon proved to be too small, so in 1906 it was enlarged and provided with a transept and two side aisles. This time too, the chapter house covered most of the costs, and the beautiful, colored windows adorning the walls of the church tell of the generous donations of the provost and some canons. The choir houses wooden statues of Saint Stephen and Saint Ladislaus. Three memorial tablets have been placed in one of the side aisles. The middle one lists the soldiers who fell in World War I, and the outer marble tablets list the victims of World War II.