Veres Gábor szerk.: Agria 46. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2010)

Lisztóczky László: „Fegyvert fogunk mindannyian ha szükség…” Pájer Antal és az 1848-49-es forradalom és szabadságharc

László Lisztóczky "We shall All Take Up Arms, if Needed.

.. " Antal Pájer and the 1848-49 Revolution an War of Independence The notable Eger trip of the poet Petőfi was one of the most interesting and most frequently mentioned episodes in the life and career of Antal Pájer, despite the fact that the wished for personal meeting of the two did not happen. The main events of this are dealt with in the initial part of this study. Due to the personal meeting not taking place between Antal Pájer and Petőfi, Pájer became only a supporting character of the legendary event, whereas he could have become one of the protagonists. A lifelong friendship may have been made between them. Parallel features can be noticed not only between their ideas but between their poetical aspirations too. Antal Pájer brought the same changes to ecclesiastical as did Petőfi to secular poetry: He enriched the means of expressions with folk motives. His biographers call him the "

Petőfi of ecclesiastical poetry

", who introduced popular voice and approach to religious poetry and with that also brought it closer to everyday life. It is not at all accidental that even in his village and priestly solitude the ideas and events of the 1848-49 Revolution and War of Independence enchanted him. As a priest and a poet these memories remained with him until his death. Most of his poems shown here were lurking in old magazines, single sheet old prints and in the manuscript bequest, and only emerged from the waters of forgetfulness in the last decade. Hence the least known and the most beautiful ones are published in full length. 414