Thomas de Canterbury ca sfânt patron al unui preot paroh din Transilvania Evului Mediu târziu.
Thomas of Canterbury as a patron saint of a parish priest from Late Medieval Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to offer a more rigorous interpretation of the contents of one of the few well preserved seals of the medieval Saxon parish priests in Transylvania. Analysing a series of sigilographic details in combination with several clues regarding the presence of the cult of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Hungary and Transylvania, in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, provide arguments for the idea that the seal of Thomas, the parish priest of Moșna (germ. Meschen, hung. Muzsna), preserved on a document from 1423, displays the holy representation of this saint. Adopted, most likely, as a personal patron saint due to the evident homonymy (patrocinia), especially since his parish church was dedicated to the Holy Virgin, the possible representation of Thomas Becket in the seal of this cleric offers new perspectives and sources for the dynamics of the cult of saints in Late Medieval Transylvania.The present study aims to offer a more rigorous interpretation of the contents of one of the few well preserved seals of the medieval Saxon parish priests in Transylvania. Analysing a series of sigilographic details in combination with several clues regarding the presence of the cult of St. Thomas of Canterbury in Hungary and Transylvania, in fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the author tries to provide arguments for the idea that the seal of Thomas, the parish priest of Moșna (germ. Meschen, hung. Muzsna), preserved on a document from 1423, displays the holy representation of this saint. Adopted, most likely, as a personal patron saint due to the evident homonymy (patrocinia), especially since his parish church was dedicated to the Holy Virgin, the possible representation of Thomas Becket in the seal of this cleric offers new perspectives and sources for the dynamics of the cult of saints in Late Medieval Transylvania.

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