Dénesi Tamás (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 6. (Pannonhalma, 2018)
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270 Somorjai Ádám OSB: Pannonhalmi és magyarországi ... Zelenka, Ales – Sauer , Walter OSB (1971), Die Wappen der Wiener Schottenäbte, Wien. Ádám Somorjai OSB Documents about Pannonhalma and Hungary in the Archives of the Schotten stift Abbey in Vienna Report on a research August 28 – September 6, 2018 The ̈Scots ̈ Abbey (“Schottenstift”) in central Vienna was founded about 1155 and had a lot of contacts with the Abbey of Pannonhalma (Saint Martin’s Abbey, Hungary, founded in 996) and St. Stephen’s Abbey in Telki (Budajenő, near Budapest, Hungary). In the 16th century there was a prayer communion since 1509; as for the 17th century, several letters were exchanged between the abbots of the time, all the se documents are published. It was not intended to extend the research to the 17 th and 18th centuries, because the sources are in the process of elaboration, and the obituaries of the Pannonhalma confreres were not examined either, but they also give evidence of the existing prayer communion. The bulk of the documents is about St. Stephen’s Abbey in Telki (Budajenő), which was administered by the Schottenstift of Vienna since the end of the 17 th century until 1882. In this short overview an introduction is given to the archival materials and the question is put, why St. Stephen’s Abbey in Hungary was not rebuilt and revitalized. The answer could be that Schottenstift was proud to have two abbatial titles, which was important in the Capital of the double-headed eagle (the Habsburg Monarchy), and the 21 monks coming from Hungary of the time did not think about it either, perhaps because there were mostly of German mother tongue. The juniors of the Schottenstift were instructed in Hungarian even in the late 19th century, but in 1882 the Hungarian State wanted to purchase the St. Stephen’s Abbey Abbey for the “Fund of Religion” in order to contribute to the finances of catholic education. The archival documents related to St. Stephen’s Abbey in Telki are preserved in the Archives of the Schottenstift, in the Archives of Pest County (http://mnl.gov.hu/pml) and in the Episcopal Archives of Székesfehérvár; all three were visited by the Author in 2018. The contents of the Appendix: 1. A list of documents on St. Stephen’s Abbey in Telki according to volume IV of the History of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma; 2. the names, origin and biographical data (years of birth) of the Benedictine monks of the Schottenstift born in historic Hungary in the years of 1700-1884, according to the research of Eugen Bonomi; and 3. a short description of the boxes (“scrinia”) of the Archives of the Schottenstift relating to Hungary (mostly to Telki, Budajenő, Páty, Vácrátót and the Houses in Old Buda in Budapest).
