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Spirituality of Secular Priests in the Medieval Transylvanian Diocese:

Summary/Abstract: The study aims at showing the main characteristics of the spirituality of secular priests in medieval Transylvania, investigating some manifestations of devotional character which do not belong to conventional everyday pastoral tasks. These manifestations are being used as secondary sources, because primary information about the theme is not available. The study contains five parts. The first part analyzes the participation of secular priests in religious associations (confraternitates) in different Transylvanian regions (Beszterce, Szászsebes, Segesvár), presenting the functioning and the participants of these associations. The next part deals with the participation of priests at pilgrimages. Investigating the sources it can name some priests who took part at pilgrimages to Rome, the Holy Land, Czestochowa. The details about the personal itineraries contain important information about the interests and mentalities of the period. The third part of the work deals with the activity of the priests within the hospitals, the most characteristic institutions of charity during the middle ages. The following part presents priests as supporters of sacral constructions, enumerating the written sources which mention the builders of churches and chapels by name. Finnally the fifth part makes a presentation of the rules and modes how secular priests used and were supposed to formulate their testaments.

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