Szabadfalvi József szerk.: Néprajzi tanulmányok a Zempléni-hegyvidékről (A miskolci Herman Ottó Múzeum néprajzi kiadványai 10. Miskolc, 1965)

Nádasi Éva: A búcsújárás szokásai Mogyoróskán

PARISH-FEAST IN MOGYORÓSRA (Abstract) The custom of pilgrimage to „miraculous places'' of nature, to wells, caves, springs and trees, originates from the pagan cult, the pananimism. The Catholic Church drives this pagan custom to Christian channal and uses it in its liturgy-system: it originates pilgrimage from the churchgoing of the Old Testament. In Hungary the custom can be followed back till the time of the establishment of the kingdom. The Mary-cult of the century of Baroque underlines the Christian character of the parish-feast. This highly characteristic manifestation of the country religion arrives to its peak in the 19th c. and survives also in the first decades of our century. Nowadays, due to the stiff political atmosphere and the strengthening re-education of the world outlook in the 50-ies. religious feast bears importance only for a narrow layer of the older generations. The feast has two main forms. One is the so called village or church feast, devoted to the honour of the patron saint of the church. The other is the so called high procession or „sainty feast", which means pilgrimage to a place acknowledged by the Church and consecrated by miracle. We examined feast and the attaching customs in a closed up small village, in Mogyoróska. There are about 300 people living in the village, most of whom are of Ruthene origin, and nearly all are Uniate. Men are either peasants with primitive farming, or. more and more of them, work in the industry in the nearby towns. Young people are moving away from the village, so the population gets older and older. Religion has important role only in the life of old women. We examined parish-feast in the time-sequence from the turn of the century till our days. We endeavoured to uncover the differences in the social and the convictional background of the two varieties. In Mogyoróska the church was consecrated to apostles Saint Peter and Paul, thus the church feast is held at Peter-Paul. The feast is preseded by preparations, since relatives and friends from farther villages all gather this day. It means that the village feast is also a means of supporting family connections, and, for a long time, it used to be the most important form of visitation, as well. People from the neighbouring villages also come to the feast: processions came from Baskó and Regéc even up till 1955—56. Guest priests are often invited to the feast, first of all from Komlóska, Csobád and Szikszó. The feast liturgy begins with the open common prayer held during the vigil. Next morning is the morning prayer (utren'e) held. The most important part of ritual is the high mass, when also the guest priests are concelebrating, and the procession, when the whole population gathers in the church-yard. The vespers (vetchern'e). the evening prayer, is held in the afternoon. Earlier the feast was finished with ball providing the youth possibility for amusement and acquaintance. No balls are held nowadays. For high feast people from Mogyoróska go to Pócs, Monok, Szentkút. Earlier they went on foot, now they travel by train or bus. Nowadays the place of high feast with procession is taken over by religious instrumentional trip organised by the priest. 333