A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1968 (Debrecen, 1970)

Mesterházy Károly: The spread of Byzantine Christianity in Hungary during the Árpád Dynasty (11th–14th centuries)

south and the east in subsequent times worked to the effect that Byzantine Christianity survived, sporadically though, until the 13th century, and in Transylvania still later. It is also of considerable importance, that the Byzantine church took a more passive and remote attitute throughout than its Roman counterpart, and it was also more lenient to pagans.

142 It was due to these and other, known or less known circumstances, that several characteristic features of Byzantine Christianity were taken up by the Roman church in Hungary, but these customs could never develop into perfection. Its traits were not marked in architecture or in painting to the extent one could expect. But our present excavations promise some classical Byzantine relics. 181