Dénesi Tamás (szerk.): Collectanea Sancti Martini - A Pannonhalmi Főapátság Gyűjteményeinek Értesítője 8. (Pannonhalma, 2020)
I. Közlemények
36 Keresztes Csaba: A deáki római katolikus plébánia iratanyaga Csaba Keresztes The documents of the Roman Catholic congregation and parish in Deáki The village of Deá ki (Diakovce in today’s Slovakia) formed a part of the system of estates of the Benedictine Order before the First World War, and the local parish was continuously served by a Benedictine monks until the 1980s. Its church is one of the most ancient and most beautiful churches in the Carpathian Basin, and the majority of the village’s inhabitants is Hungarian-speaking and Roman Catholic even today. Owing to the ministry of the Benedictine parish priests for many centuries, a significant number of documents was accumulated in the parish’s archives. In 2010, because the seat of the parish priest was transferred to another location, the documents were deposited in the locally designated state archives (in Slovakian: Štátny archív v Nitre - pracovisko Archív Šaľa ). The documents were deposited in disordered, unclassified condition, therefore first they had to be ordered. The archivists subsequently established a systematic order (a thematic register) after having learnt the contents of the documents, and every document has exactly been classified chronologically and thematically. Following the classification, all documents have been registered item by item, that is, every document has been provided with a short description. In the above-named archives, the register is available only in Slovakian for the time being. The documents contain many things of interest. Among different kinds of protocol, the registers of baptisms, marriages and deaths in the village could be found. The assessments of taxes, the reports of income and expenditure, and the accounts highlight the economic circumstances of the period and those of the Benedictine Order. Starting from the end of the 19th century, many reports of church-income, different kinds of land-affairs and transactions of foundations (mass-foundations of mise, statue-foundations, and other foundations) can be found in these valuable documents.
