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tusztörténet. Képes tanulmányok. Budapest 2003. 180-204. THÜMMEL 2004 - THÜMMEL, E.: A fogadalmi képek gyűjteménye Mariazellben. Mariazell és Magyarország. Egy zarándokhely emlékezete. Szerk. Farbaky P. - Serfőző Sz. Budapest 2004. 337-345. TÜSKÉS 1993 - TÜSKÉS G.: Búcsújárás a barokk kori Magyarországon. Budapest 1993. VAJKAI 1942 - VAJKAI A.: Népi orvoslás a dunántúli búcsújáró helyeken. Magyarságtudomány 1942/1. 116-139. WHITE 1993 = WHITE, K: Szentek kislexikona. Budapest 1993. WIMMER - MELZER 2002 - WIMMER, OMELZER, H.: Lexikon der Namen und Heiligen. Hamburg 2002. WIMMER 2000 - WIMMER, O.: Kennzeichen und Attribute der Heiligen. Innsbruck 2000. FOLLOWING THE TRACE OF A DEVOTIONAL IMAGE DEPICTIONS OF THE GIDLE STATUETTE In the year 2005 I bought a sacred image for the ethnographical collection of the museum at Pápa. The image seemed to be connected to the Dominican order in certain way, and is a typical manifestation of folk religiosity. There are not any inscriptions in the picture, which has been unique so far in the collection of folk religiosity of Laczkó Dezső Museum. The picture is divided into to parts horizontally. In the middle of the upper part the Virgin stands holding the Child in her right arm, both are crowned and wreathed with roses. On their left kneels Saint Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order. On their right the founder of the Polish Dominicans, Saint Hyacinth (Jacek) is depicted, also kneeling. In the lower part a ploughman stands watching as a statuette of the Madonna holding the Child in halo is emerging from the ground in front of his oxen. The image is a coloured print. Hence in the history of the Dominican order in Hungary I found no data of turning up this particular devotional statue in this way, I looked for similar depictions in museum collections. In the collection of Vasvár museum a partly identical sacred image is deposited. The difference between the two is that the latter one is framed with the stages of the Virgin's life depicted in fifteen medallions encircled with roses. The Maria Gildeska inscription reveals the origin of the statue is in Gidle, Poland. Later two more images were found in the ethnographical collection of Balassagyarmat Palóc Museum, and in the Rőthy Mihály Collection of Folk Religiosity in Kislőd. Gidle is a popular shrine maintained by the Dominicans in the vicinity of Czestochowa. The 10 cm high statuette carved of stone is deposited in the Ascension church. According to local legends the statuette hid in a chest was found by a peasant, Jan Czeczek while ploughing. After a while the peasant and his family got blinded. They gained back their eyesight by washing their eyes with the water used to clean the statuette. Consequently a chapel was erected for the statuette. Then the landlord settled the Dominicans, who had the church built. Miraculous healings by the statuette did not ceased, on the contrary, they kept on going to date. These days mostly those of suffering of cancer are healed. Miraculous healings, escaping from perilous situations, coming to life from death are depicted by the so called votive pictures from the 17

th century on the walls of the chapel. These images are akin to similar depictions of other shrines. On the anniversary of bathing the statuette it is again washed with wine. This wine is also attributed with healing power, and carried home in vials by the pilgrims. The statuette is considered to be the protector of ploughmen and miners. Most pilgrims approaching to Czestochowa also visit Gidle, since the former is regarded as healer of the soul, while the latter is held as healer of the body. Images of the legend of the statuette were spread in the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. In our essay the history of the finding of the statuette and its miracles, and also their connections to the Dominicans are explored. A rich collection of illustrations is appended and the time span is extended to present day miraculous healings. A whole chapter is dedicated to Saint Hyacinth, the great Polish missionary, and founder of the Polish Dominican order. On the first Sunday following the 15

th of August a procession is lead to the chapel at Gidle each year. 1 A képhez való hozzájutás és a közlés lehetőségét dr. Zágorhidi-Czigány Balázs múzeumigazgatónak köszönöm! 2 Az adatot dr. Lengyel Ágnes néprajzkutatónak köszönöm! 3 http//vww.gidle.dominikanie.pl/2 4 A gidlei Szűz Mária szentély. Sanctuarium 2/2006. 5 Tekintettel arra, hogy a lengyel irodalmi, egyháztörténeti anyag fordítását Pék József mérnök elvégezte, úgy tartom etikusnak, hogy a tanulmány kettőnk neve alatt jelenjen meg. 6 A gidlei domonkos kolostor és templom története. BUDREWICZ 1964. 7 A gidlei szentély története. Sanctuarium 3/2007. 8 VAJKAI 1942. 118. 9 VAJKAI 1942. 127. 10 V.o. VAJKAI 1942.127. 11 TÜSKÉS 1993. 330-331- és 370. 12 BARTÓK 2005. 83. 13 KATEKIZMUS 1994. 46., 121., 402. 14 BÁLINT - BARNA 1994. 97. 15 BÁLINT - BARNA 1994. 97. 16 V. ö. BARTÓK 2005. 83-83., 144-153-. SZILÁRDFY 2003. 194-201. BÁLINT - BARNA 1994. 17., 20., JÁNOSI 1939- 3-717 BÁLINT - BARNA 1994.140-140., JÁNOSI 1935. 47-48., 71., JÁNOSI 1939. 5.