Dénesi Tamás (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 5. (Pannonhalma, 2017)
II. Közlemények
152 Kádár Zsófia: A pannonhalmi bencés szerzetesség újraindulása... the Society of Jesus. Under the inspiration of his confessor, the ideologist of the early phase of the Thirty Years’ War, Wilhelm Lamormaini, Ferdinand II issued his Edict of Restitution (1629, Restitutionsedikt ), due to which a debate was started within the Catholic Church about the estates of religious orders to be returned for the Catholics in the process of executing the edict. To wit, Lamormaini wanted to use a part of the estates of the “old” monastic orders to support the new Jesuit foundations. Romanus Hay joined the “Monastery Controversy” by the side of the monastic orders. In one of his works ( Aula Ecclesiastica ... et Hortus Crusianus , Frankfurt, 1648), he devoted a short chapter to the reorganisation of the convent in Pannonhalma, too, in which he quoted the letters of Himmelreich, Nagyfalvy and György Draskovich Jr, Bishop of Győr, written to him asking for the support of the restart, however, he made no mention of the conflicting opinions of Archbishop Pázmány and György Lippay, Bishop of Veszprém, Chancellor of Hungary. The reorganisation of the convent was finally completed after György Himmelreich, Archbishop Pázmány and Ferdinand II had died, when at the intervention of Bishop Wolfradt of Vienna, by virtue of (earlier) articles of the Hungarian Diet, a candidate for arch abbot of Hungarian origin was sought and found in the person of Mátyás Pálffy, the Cistercian Abbot of Heiligenkreuz. He was created Regent-Archabbot by the Ruler in 1638, and after having been transferred into the Benedictine Order by the Pope’s absolution, he was appointed as the Archabbot. On the part of the Jesuit College of Győr founded in 1626 on behalf of Ferdinand II but on the initiative of Miklós Dallos, Bishop of Győr, Péter Belecius, the Rector rightly applied for the benefice of the vacant estate of Pannonhalma in a petition to the Monarch in 1637 to provide a temporary supplementary income for the religious house. Though his petition yielded no result, the restart of the Benedictine convent became intertwined with the early history of the College in Győr, after all. That is, based on Jesuit sources (Annual Letters and catalogues of the province), we know about the operation of a short-lived academy in Győr in 1639. The philosophical and modest theological training also served the education of the new Benedictine novices based in Győr. I identified 14 of them as the students of the Jesuit secondary school in Győr in the initial years (I publish their names, educational and biographical data in the appendix of the paper). Thus, in spite of the aforementioned international relationships, the background of Hungarian legislation and the Turkish threat created a peculiar situation. In Győr, in contrast to the mentality of the Monastery Controversy, the example of the Benedictine Convent of Pannonhalma demonstrates that the members of the Catholic Church in Hungary of the 17th century correctly recognised the need of considerable interdependence and despite their different interests they cooperated for the sake of monastic life in Hungary and the reinforcement of the complete Church in Hungary in this way.
