Čeští poutníci a slovenský Šaštín ve světle "knih milostí"
Czech Pilgrims and Slovak Šaštín in the Light of the "Books of Mercy"

Summary/Abstract: The site of pilgrimage was part of the system of creating regional, religious and ethnic awareness. Mutual cultural and social ties were forged based on the principle of the manifestation of religious act common to all pilgrims participating in the pilgrimages which were one of occasions for the gathering of wider local, frequently also geographically multiregional communities. foundation for the dense and relatively evenly distributed network of sites of pilgrimage in the Czech lands during the post-Tridentine period. In accordance with the nature of the pilgrimages knowing no boundaries, a great number of pilgrims from the territory of the Czech visited famous sites of pilgrimage within the Austrian Dual State or beyond its borders. Among the frequently visited Marian sites of pilgrimage was also the town of Šaštín Slovakia which was a destination for processions from the Moravian-Silesian territory soon after One of the motivating incentives for undertaking pilgrimages was the fact that the pieta of Seven Sorrows of the Virgin was considered the Madonna that worked miracles. After all, plenty of evidence to support this in the form of manuscripts and printed miracle books dating to 1732-1794. Excerpts from these sources enable us to examine in a specific manner the oldest experiences of Czech worshippers going on miracles to Slovak Šaštín. Their comparison with the current of mercy kept at the Šaštín pilgrimage Basilica of Seven Sorrows has provided us with remarkable comparative material for the study of transformations of Czech peregrination to Slovakia. Based on the excerpts from the sources, it is apparent that the tradition of pilgrimages Šaštín Virgin from the Moravia-Silesian borderland, is still alive lasting more than 275 years without interruption even in the politically unfavourable period of the second half of the 20th although there was a significant shift in the mental experience of miraculous hearings.

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