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Abstract: The author focusses on the issue of church dedications and their changes with respect to chosen sacral buildings of protestant congregations in the historical Hontian Archdeaconry (especially in the towns of Banská Štiavnica and Krupina and the villages of Cerovo and Dačov Lom) in the context of the research on 34 other locations of evangelical (Lutheran and Calvinist) churches and prayer rooms. In doing so, it has been found out that some originally catholic dedications together with the original furnishings have been preserved, although the churches in question have been in the possession of the Lutherans in some cases for more than a century, while the patrocinations of some sacral buildings have changed. It is the gradual development that is of importance here - the withdrawal from using patrocinations and from reverence for saints in Lutheran religious congregations (partly with changed furnishings), which occurred at a faster pace in the Calvinist congregations where the reverence for saints disappeared altogether. Prescribed religious holidays (festa decretalia) were celebrated more frequently in the Lutheran environment than in the Calvinist one. Changes in the perception of the patrocinations are also evidenced in sources of secular provenience in towns, where the original catholic dedications were replaced by new names. The presented study documents the gradual and differentiated demise of the reverence for saints, which was partly accompanied by changes in the furnishings of the congregations, changes of the patrocination in several places and by the demise of the original patrocination without introducing a new one in one case. |
