A miskolci ortodox templom és sírkertje (Miskolc, 2001)
A miskolci ortodox templom és sírkertje (Összegzés angolul) Zimányi Katalin
Reanalysing the registers of deaths again in the year of 2000 some experts thought that the existence of considerably more tombstones and epigraphs must be reasonable. Therefore it was an evident task to compare the data of registers with the data earlier published and to supervise both by a digging up, being not explicitly an excavation. The work and the conviction was helped by the members of a group of students, some specialists in museum work and some historians in the summer of 2001. Successfully they managed to find, clean, draw and photograph some new crypts, fragments of tombstones, several sunken flat-stones with epigraphs in Hungarian near to the wall on the west border of the ground-plot. The names put down in the descriptions in 1942, 1951 and 1966 can still be found nowadays, but 17 new tombstones were identified as well. (The tombstones with Hungarian epigraphs - which had not been published so far - for the most part, refer to the descendants of the Greek merchants in 18 th century.) The study in this volume publishes the photos and drawings of all the tombstones and burial-places around the church. The author has tried to „place back" these family names into the society of the town in 1819 th centuries searching for the relationships among the families (for instance by marriages) seeking for data, and examples in order to clear up whether it is possible that descendants live among us. The result of the whole work is the clear-cut verification of the fact that most of the tombstones and burial-places with Greek inscriptions in Hungary of today can be found in Eger and Miskolc. Maintaining them, preserving them as they are now or converting them into a park of piety is the task of not only the orthodox congregation and not only the town of Miskolc. It is a historical co-occurrence of relics of public interest and it can be and has to be handled correspondingly. The last study of the volume is a joint one written by Sándorné Titkos and Tibor Rémiás. Within the framework of the association aiming to investigate the local history the authors (a teacher and a historian) formed a group of students to find unknown tombstones in the Orthodox graveyard though to identify tombstones was not a customary task of the association. Yet this group of students has helped to enrich the historical knowledge not only of our town but also of the Orthodox Church by the considerable data revealed. To sum it up, their work and their results have made possible and reasonable to publish this volume. The importance of this book in professional circles is that the assumptions based on the registers of the church have proved to be true.
