Žarošice
Žarošice

Pilgrimage tradition in the light of administrative register of pilgrimages and processions of the Olomouc diocese from 1771

Summary/Abstract: After a strong expansion of pilgrimages supported by the Church and the state after the post-White Mountain period came a gradual change of the church and the state politics by the 1750s. One of the tools was also the attempt to regulate unrestrained organization of pilgrimages, therefore in 1771 there was an officially issued order to create a list Consignatio Processionum ex Decanatus Parochii in Marchionatus Moravia existencibus annuae Duci Solitarum, which investigated the status of organized pilgrimages and processions in the area of the diocese of Olomouc. We try to present the pilgrimage tradition in one of the Moravian places of pilgrimage – Žarošovice through a detailed analysis. The presented analysis, therefore, presents what kind of pilgrimages were organized, which locations organized collective pilgrimages, and which dates – celebrations the pilgrims chose for their pious journeys. The motivation behind such pilgrimages is also an inseparable part of the study.

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