Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

II Upland Market Town - II-6 Statue of Saint Donát

11-6 Statue of Saint Donát I Next to the road lead^^^^ ing to the vineyard, stands a copy of a stone statue of Saint Donát from Gyöngyös. Saint Donát was a Roman Legionary and is the patron saint of vineyards. His Saints Day was a holiday and local inhabitants in festive clothes walked in procession to the saints statue or chapel. They prayed for protection against bad weather (frost, hail, storms) and various vine diseases. According to tradition in case the grape froze a bundle of vine-shoots was tied and lit on the back of